Brunswick, ME — Early Wednesday morning, 28 Bowdoin students entered President Barry Mill’s office for a “Sit-In for Climate Justice,” refusing to leave until the College committed to collaborating with them on fossil fuel divestment.

Movement to divest at Allegheny College will not fade with time

By: Nathan Malachowski, Community Organizer at Iowa CCI

On April 22nd, 2014, Allegheny Student Government (ASG) voted to pass a resolution in favor of fossil fuel divestment. This was a cursory step toward garnering support for the initiative, and in many ways served as a commitment on the part of ASG to pursue fossil fuel divestment on an institutional level. To be clear, students at Divest Allegheny have the following demands:

Early this morning, Swarthmore Mountain Justice launched an extended sit-in for fossil fuel divestment on the campus that birthed the now global divestment campaign, kicking off a historic spring of escalating nonviolent action throughout the student divestment movement. The 37 students and 6 alumni are asking the Swarthmore Board Investment Committee Chair Chris Niemczewski and Board Chair Gil Kemp to return to the negotiating table and agree to end the College’s investments in a rogue industry that violates Swarthmore’s Quaker values and recklessly imperils a just and sustainable future for our generation.