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.
On day 29 of sit-in @swarthmore faculty passes resolution calling on the Board to divest from #fossilfuels #whoseside pic.twitter.com/JWgHsjlOup
.@Swarthmore faculty passed resolution calling for divestment from Carbon Tracker 200 fossil fuel companies. @jisham
— Lee Smithey (@peacesociology) April 17, 2015
.@swarthmore faculty passed resolution calling for divestment from Carbon Tracker 200 fossil fuel companies. @jisham
Sociology & Anthropology faculty at @swarthmore College endorse divestment. Open Letter to Board: http://bit.ly/soandivest
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Sociology & Anthropology faculty at @Swarthmore College endorse divestment. Open Letter to Board: http://t.co/DjjzPCvl8a
— Swarthmore Soc Anth (@swatsocanth) April 17, 2015
Waiting, watching, dreaming, dancing. Thank you, @robbieconal—your beautiful posters have been inspiring us all week. pic.twitter.com/8KpJjdCm7p
— Sunrise Pennsylvania (@PASunrise) April 17, 2015
Waiting, watching, dreaming, dancing. Thank you, @robbieconal—your beautiful posters have been inspiring us all week. pic.twitter.com/8KpJjdCm7p
.@deliaridgecream + @cara_janine lead prayer @BostonCollege president's office. 8 sleeping in tonight. #whoseside pic.twitter.com/UaSDYZHdkU
— Fossil Free (Boston College) (@Fossil_Free) April 17, 2015
.@deliaridgecream + @cara_janine lead prayer @BostonCollege president’s office. 8 sleeping in tonight. #whoseside pic.twitter.com/UaSDYZHdkU
300 people, led by students, surround University Hall. #whoseside #harvardheatweek #ourside #divest pic.twitter.com/LsyGpRsvip
— Katie McChesney 🌅 (@mc_chesney) April 16, 2015
300 people, led by students, surround University Hall. #whoseside #harvardheatweek #ourside #divest pic.twitter.com/LsyGpRsvip
Wesleyan University sit in to divest from the fossil fuel industry, Israeli occupation, and the prison industrial… http://fb.me/1NDSHu4Ym
WAMC produced a story about the fossil-fuel divestment sit-in at Swarthmore College that appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.
The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year. But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit-in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard.
On the first day of an extended sit-in at the elite liberal arts college, dozens of students are crowded into a hallway outside the finance offices, learning a new protest song.
“We’re asking for our school to sell its holdings in the top 200 coal, oil and gas companies,” senior Sara Blazevic says. “Divestment is a way for our school, as a institution with a lot of social standing and a lot of clout, to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry.”
Read the whole article and listen to audio broadcast coverage, including the interview with Swarthmore student Sara Blacevic on WAMC’s website.
