Sunrise, SGO, SBC to invest surplus money into a fossil-free fund
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Author: Daniel AF
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May 31, 2015
Molly Miller Jahn ’80, world-renowned plant geneticist, expresses support for the student fossil fuel divestment campaign during her commencement address
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February 15, 2016
Noam Chomsky, Arlie Hochschild, John Braxton, Lotte Bailyn, Lorene Cary and Barbara Hall Partee Call on Swarthmore’s Board of Managers to Divest
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April 17, 2015
Alumni Deliver 360 pledges not to donate until the Board divests & 1083 petition signatures
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April 10, 2015
350 Swarthmore Alumni Pledge not to donate until the Board commits to fossil fuel divest
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March 7, 2015
an Investment Expert Hired By Swarthmore Calls for Divestment
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March 23, 2015
UN Climate Chief and Swarthmore alumna Christiana Figueres ’79 Supports Sit-in
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February 13, 2015
60 students launch the Divestment Escalation Pledge
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April 21, 2017
Swat Divest Stages Unless: a Dramatic Divestment Reading
Professors Christy Schuetze and Lee Smithey perform a dramatic reading of The Lorax for divestment as part of Swat Divest, the faculty and staff fossil fuel divestment group.
Further reading:
- Watch the dramatic reading here!
- Check out Swat Divest
Students with Mountain Justice begin a fossil fuel divestment campaign following trips they had taken to West Virginia, where they had witnessed the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Further reading:
- “Our Campaign,” Mountain Justice
- Hannah Jones, “From Mountaintop Removal to Divestment: The Story of Swarthmore Students’ Fight Against Fossil Fuels,” Zinn Education Project