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.
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 Why is Sunrise campaigning to have it repealed?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!
In 2010, Swarthmore Mountain Justice, an organization against mountaintop removal coal mining, launched the first fossil fuel divestment campaign in the world. These students were inspired by the international campaign to divest from South African Apartheid during the ’80s.
Sunrise lead a successful effort to elect opponents of the Mariner East II pipeline, currently under A child in Chester is diagnosed with asthma; a family is forced to leave their demolished As a young writer in my 20s, not long after publishing one of the first books
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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.
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
Sunrise is a movement of young people uniting to stop the climate crisis. This dark hour in America cannot last. Welcome to Sunrise.
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.
In a voice as carefree as the breeze blowing by us in Kohlberg Courtyard, September Sky Porras ’20 mentions, “I come from a very leftist family.” Now this isn’t a shock, especially considering the sort of students that Swarthmore tends to attract, but it’s nonetheless necessary to place Porras politically, and to understand the circumstances that created the activist sitting in front of me.
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