Divestment: It’s not a gesture – it’s an imperative
The fossil fuel divestment movement began at Swarthmore four years ago and has since spread to campuses and institutions around
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Rethinking Green
Mountain Justice will maintain pressure until Board commits
Last Thursday, 43 students and alumni began the largest ever sit-in for fossil fuel divestment, asking Chris Niemczewski and Board
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Why does Swarthmore invest in a rogue industry?
In his op-ed earlier this month, Professor Tim Burke questioned the efficacy of divestment, suggesting that instead of divestment, we
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Swarthmore Board of Managers, whose side are you on?
On Monday, February 2, six members of Swarthmore’s Board of Managers again failed to take leadership on the climate crisis
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Why does Swarthmore bet against ecological necessity?
Swarthmore’s largest financial consultant, Cambridge Associates, recently announced that it will actively assist institutional investors in implementing fossil fuel divestment.
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What midterms mean for the climate movement
Last week’s losses by Democrats in the midterm elections definitely do not bode well for action on climate change —
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The power and promise of divestment
As Arjun Raghuraman ’16 wrote in his column last week, climate change is causing grave harm to millions around the
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Clarifying the divestment theory of change
Since its inception at Swarthmore College just three years ago, the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown to over 500
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A game-changer for the climate movement
This was a game-changing weekend for the international climate justice movement. On Sunday, 400,000 people, including 200 from the college,
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Confronting the climate crisis
Later this month, world leaders will gather at the United Nations for an unprecedented climate summit in hopes of drafting
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