Sunrise Amherst Responds to Divestment Announcement

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, We would first like to thank the Board for the March 31 announcement regarding fossil fuel divestment. We appreciate that the college is listening to and addressing the concerns that student organizers and the campus community have expressed regarding fossil fuels. Divestment is both a financial and moral statement, and we are thus grateful that Amherst is willing to take a public stance against the unethical and destructive fossil fuel industry. Th

A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest?

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, It is past time to divest from fossil fuels and the prison-industrial complex. We write to you on the eve of Amherst’s bicentennial, in a year that has brought continued police violence, a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the most hurricanes ever recorded in a single season. Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities who are most targeted by policing and incarceration have also disproportionately felt the effects of Covid-19 [https://www