The fossil fuel divestment movement began at Swarthmore four years ago and has since spread to campuses and institutions around the world.…
Last Thursday, 43 students and alumni began the largest ever sit-in for fossil fuel divestment, asking Chris Niemczewski and Board Chair Gil…
In his op-ed earlier this month, Professor Tim Burke questioned the efficacy of divestment, suggesting that instead of divestment, we should focus…
On Monday, February 2, six members of Swarthmore’s Board of Managers again failed to take leadership on the climate crisis and divest…
Swarthmore’s largest financial consultant, Cambridge Associates, recently announced that it will actively assist institutional investors in implementing fossil fuel divestment. For years,…
Last week’s losses by Democrats in the midterm elections definitely do not bode well for action on climate change — or for…
As Arjun Raghuraman ’16 wrote in his column last week, climate change is causing grave harm to millions around the world, and…
Since its inception at Swarthmore College just three years ago, the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown to over 500 campaigns worldwide,…
This was a game-changing weekend for the international climate justice movement. On Sunday, 400,000 people, including 200 from the college, marched through…
Later this month, world leaders will gather at the United Nations for an unprecedented climate summit in hopes of drafting an international…