“When we hear your stories of divestment, we give you the other things that connect us — our thoughts and prayers” @kmaxx350 #WhoseSide
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When I was at Swarthmore at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s, there was the beginning of a movement among students, faculty, and other community members to have the school divest its holdings in companies that did business in South Africa.
“We are not drowning, we are fighting” — @kmaxx350 on Pacific Island Warriors
“Over the past month, the @swarthmore community made it clear that #WhoseSide we are one, it is time for the Board to stand with us”
The fossil fuel divestment movement began at Swarthmore four years ago and has since spread to campuses and institutions around the world. On perhaps the most significant issue of our age, the need to slow climate change, Swarthmore students have established themselves as global leaders.
“The sit-in ends today, but the campaign isn’t over, divestment is a’coming” pic.twitter.com/EcQDnhyXhj
“If the board chooses fear, we will be back in September, because this is too important an issues” #WhoseSide pic.twitter.com/D5e5x69E68
“The @swarthmore Board has agreed to our major demand, that they seriously engage with our proposal” #whoseside pic.twitter.com/6nRFf7F6du
Harvard students spent much of last week blockading the main administrative building because they want the college to discuss dumping its investments in energy stocks. A less aggressive effort for such divestment is happening in Worcester – including local colleges such as Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Worcester State University.
Read ‘To divest or not to divest: College students on fossil fuel debate’ on Yahoo Finance Canada . Students at Harvard University are on the final day of something called Heat Week. It’s a week long protest pushing for the University to divest of fossil fuel stocks.