MJ Hand-Delivers Letter; Next Day, Board Says Nothing About Divestment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vw9cahpV8
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October 25, 2018
SJP Announces New BDS Campaign
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2018/10/25/sjp-bds/
The actual statement? Try to find if possible: https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2018/10/25/swarthmore-college-divest-from-israeli-apartheid-now/
https://www.facebook.com/272995506152454/videos/2254468577928726
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=120820112192747
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/10/10/sjp-announced-bds-campaign
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/5/sisa-letter-of-support-for-sjp
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/4/sass-board-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/12/aja-letter-of-solidarity-with-bds-and-sjp
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/5/ic-intern-bds-letter-of-support
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/sao-letter-of-solidarity-for-bds
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/colors-solidarity-letter-for-bds
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/4/wocka-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/colors-solidarity-letter-for-bds
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/swatdoulas-statement-of-solidarity-with-sjp-bds
https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/4/3/interfaith-interns-letter-of-solidarity-with-sjp
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March 18, 2019
Letter in support of Swarthmore SJP students, their BDS campaign, and all students fighting for a just world
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/swarthmore-students-fighting/
https://www.facebook.com/SwarthmoreSJP/posts/2064797673638886
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December 12, 2018
Students deliver over 1,000 petition signatures to President Smith, urging Swarthmore College to divest from Israeli apartheid.
https://www.facebook.com/272995506152454/videos/325488284847540
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March 7, 2019
After Revote, SGO Announces Support for Board’s Divestment from Israel
https://www.facebook.com/SwarthmoreSJP/posts/2051990511586269
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May 1, 2018
Students for Transformative Justice, Abolition, and Reform releases its statement
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February 20, 2015
faculty deliver a letter in support of divestment to the Board signed by 92 professors
https://swatmountainjustice.wordpress.com/category/press-feed/page/2/
http://www.swatmj.org/2015/02/20/faculty-deliver-open-letter-to-board-signed-by-92-faculty/amp/
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February 8, 1991
South African apartheid divestment activists return funds held in escrow to Swarthmore
In January of 1986, Swarthmore fined students who occupied the president’s office to demonstrate for divestment from apartheid South Africa. Members of the community helped to pay for the fines and secured a deal with the administration whereby that money would go to an independent account, to be returned to the College only if it fully divested.
Swarthmore agreed to fully divest in March, though it delayed starting the divestment process until 1989.
In February of 1991, Christine Scott ’88 and Anne M. Blackburn ’88, managers of the independent account, donated the funds to the endowment, having felt that Swarthmore had satisfied the terms of the agreement.
Unbeknownst to Scott and Blackburn, the Board of Managers would secretly adopt a policy banning any future divestment that same year (the exact date of the ban’s adoption is unknown). The Board instituted the ban in direct reaction to the South African apartheid divestment campaign.
Would Scott and Blackburn still have donated the money if they knew about the ban?
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February 21, 2017
students vote on a Mountain Justice referendum for partial divestment from fossil fuels
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2017/02/21/what-will-the-board-do-if-swarthmore-votes-yes-to-divest/
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2017/02/21/explain-like-im-five-what-exactly-is-partial-divestment/
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October 14, 1993
Swarthmore seeks reinvestment in South Africa following the end of apartheid
In making the case for reinvestment in South Africa, President Al Bloom stated:
“As I expressed to the faculty and to the student body and to the Board, I believe the College should respond to Nelson Mandela’s call to begin again to invest in companies which do business in South Africa. Such a move would both be a visible sign of our support for the constructive directions which are being pursued in South Africa and would free the college to invest in ways it deems most appropriate to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibility to guarantee the best education it can to this and future generations of students. The original decision to divest resulted form a community expression of moral outrage at the Apartheid system and I believe the decision to discontinue that divestment must also be a decision that represents the collective commitment of the the community.”
The ban on ethical divestment makes Bloom’s statement ring hollow. How could Swarthmore claim to “support” the post-apartheid government while maintaining a policy that would have kept the College invested in apartheid? How could the decision to reinvest represent “the collective commitment of the the community” if the community was kept in the dark about a policy banning divestment?