This page resurrects and extends an archive of news coverage, social media, and announcements since 2014 related to the Swatdivest, Sunrise Movement, and Swarthmore Mountain Justice. As we work to reorganize and migrate the data to this site, please bear with us. This is a work in progress.
The movement to push colleges and universities to divest from fossil fuels is heating up on campus. Everywhere you look, divestment sit-ins, protests, and rallies are sweeping across campuses. At Harvard this week, more than 1,000 students, alumni and professors have taken part in sit-ins, rallies and protests.
Originally posted in MSNBC
Archival Link via Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine“When we hear your stories of divestment, we give you the other things that connect us — our thoughts and prayers” @kmaxx350 #WhoseSide
Thanks to everyone who joined us to close out our 32-day sit-in on such a powerful note. #WhoseSide pic.twitter.com/gWjIrJiuWX
Originally posted in @SwarthMJ
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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.
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.
Posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 1:08 AM A 32-day student sit-in at Swarthmore College ended Monday after faculty voted to support the protesters’ demands to divest endowment money out of fossil fuels.
“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”
.@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
Originally posted in @swatsocanth
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