Sunrise has recently been advocating for a referendum on Swarthmore’s investment policy. The group has called Sunrise Swarthmore collected digital signatures last week in an effort to call a Student Government Organization Sunrise has had a good week. SGO recently announced that they will invest surplus funds from
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On March 19, 2015, Swarthmore College saw the longest sit-in in fossil fuel divestment history. On 9 AM that Thursday, students and alumni marched into the Investments Office demanding that the urgency of divestment from the fossil fuel industry finally be addressed and considered. For mor
Seven years ago, a group of Swarthmore students took a trip to West Virginia, where they The SGO forum on divestment last Friday appears to have produced more tension than dialogue. This Ever since the Board of Managers chose not to divest from fossil fuels, I’ve started envisioning
The Student Budget Committee (SBC) is planning on moving its residual surplus funds from Swarthmore’s capital expenditures account into a fossil-free quasi-endowment, according to SBC Chair Roman Shemakov ’20.
Curious about the student referendum on the 1991 ban? Why is Sunrise campaigning to have it repealed? What are some potential counterarguments? What is the connection to divestment?
Come to the debate to find out!
And definitely don’t forget to vote. Voting opens at 8:30pm on Monday, 4/16 and closes Wednesday, 4/18 at 8:30pm. The Google form for voting will be available during those dates at: bit.ly/1991ban. Save the date!
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The Board instituted a ban on taking social considerations into our investment decisions in 1991, two years after divesting from South African apartheid. This ban is cowardly and suggests that Swarthmore’s board regrets their decision to divest from apartheid. The ban has been the last leg the Board has to stand on to justify not divesting from the fossil fuel industry, which threatens our very futures due to climate change.
Sunrise is launching an all campus referendum to repeal the 1991 Ban and replace it with a holistic investment policy that takes into account both financial considerations and social objectives. Vote at bit.ly/1991ban.
Voting opens at 8:30pm on Monday, 4/16 and closes Wednesday, 4/18 at 8:30pm. Remind your friends to vote!
On June 17, 1985, recent alum Perry Chang wrote a handwritten note to then-president of the College David Fraser. The note read: “Dear President Fraser: I would be interested to receive a response to the letter I handed to you at Commencement. I have enclosed a copy of that letter, which I helped draft.
After a busy past year, Mountain Justice is rebranding. They’ve joined Sunrise, a national “movement to This past Friday, the second annual “Sustainable Development in Latin America & the Caribbean Conference” was On August 31, President Obama began a historic trip to the Alaskan Arctic in order to
On Nov. 7, Democrats came out victorious as Brian Zidek and Kevin Madden won two seats Dear President Smith, Since the founding of Swarthmore in 1864, the college has educated students in I have never been more acutely aware of the color of my skin, the home country
Divestment is becoming an increasingly salient issue both at Swarthmore and at colleges and universities around Sunrise lead a successful effort to elect opponents of the Mariner East II pipeline, currently under On Saturday, Oct. 7, Swarthmore students and administrators attended a Safe Climate PA conference in Harrisburg.