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 23, 2017
After SGO referendum, board still votes “no”
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2017/02/23/after-sgo-referendum-board-still-votes-no/
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1991
The Board of Managers adopts the ban on ethical divestment
The ban, part of the endowment fund’s “Statement of Investment Objectives and Policies,” states: “As a matter of policy, the Investment Committee manages the endowment to yield the best long term financial results, rather than to pursue other social objectives.”
Students involved in the fossil fuel divestment campaign began referring to this policy as “the ban” after the Board repeatedly cited it to dismiss their demands. The Board has also used the ban to block other campaigns, including
- Divestment from arms manufacturers (2001)
- Divestment from companies involved in the Israeli apartheid state and occupation of Palestine (2009, 2019)
- Ending the ban (2018)
Little public information about the ban and its adoption exists. The date of the ban’s adoption is not known. The Board did not offer a rationale for instituting the ban because it did so in secret. Even the investment policy which contains the ban is not publicly available.
Almost everything known publicly about the ban comes from explanations of the policy by administrators and Board members. Those explanations are short on details and sometimes contradictory.
(find more swat sources about this b/c, of course, the ban itself isn’t available nor is contemporary sources about its adoption).
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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?