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14th July 2012, 21:59
TUESDAY -- Tell TIAA-CREF: Divest from the Israeli Occupation!
Friday, July 13, 2012
Be there Tuesday to tell TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto!
Dear Chris,
This coming Tuesday, as TIAA-CREF holds its annual shareholders meeting, join Chicago organizations and public figures including Chicago Divests, the American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace and Cantor Michael Davis, the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada, at a march and rally outside the Chicago TIAA-CREF offices. The rally and march will demand that the financial giant live up to its motto "For the Greater Good" and divest from all its holdings in companies profiting from the violation of international law and Palestinian human rights, as part of the growing natioan, coalition-led We Divest Campaign. Corresponding protests are taking place in New York City inside and outside of the shareholders meeting.
What -- Rally will begin at noon with speeches by Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council member Michael Davis, community leaders, and shareholders at the Thompson Center. Following the rally, demonstrators will march down LaSalle to the TIAA-CREF office with songs, music, and chants calling on TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
When & Where -- Tuesday, July 17:
Rally at 12pm noon at the Thompson Center (100 W. Randolph Street--in front of the white statue)
Protest at 12:45pm at the Chicago TIAA-CREF office (200 N. LaSalle St.)
Why: TIAA-CREF has made a historic decision to divest $72.9 million of Caterpillar stock from their Social Choice fund. But this is only the beginning! TIAA-CREF still invests over $900 million in Caterpillar in other portfolios. In addition, its Social Choice fund contains investments in Motorola Solutions, which developed the surveillance and communications systems for use in illegal Israeli settlements and the apartheid wall, and Hewlett-Packard, which owns the biometric monitoring system used in Israeli military checkpoints, provides data storage solutions for illegal Israeli settlements, and coordinates information technology for the Israeli Navy. TIAA-CREF also continues to hold onto its investments in Elbit, Veolia, Northrup Grumman, and Africa Israel, all of which are complicit in the illegal Israel occupation of Palestine.
Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
Endorsed by: Chicago Divests, American Friends Service Committee-Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago, Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. Israeli Apartheid; Siegebusters; WESPAC Foundation; and Women in Black, Union Square.
Chris, please:
1. RSVP on Facebook to attend the demonstration!
2. Register for the National Organizers Conference!
Support Our BDS Work Today
We can mobilize grassroot support for boycott and divestment campaigns only with grassroots support from people like you. Help us by making a tax-deductible donation, or by joining our Olive Branch Club to make a recurring tax-deductible donation.
--Anna
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202-332-0994 | [email protected] | WWW.ENDTHEOCCUPATION.ORG
Friday, July 13, 2012
Be there Tuesday to tell TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto!
Dear Chris,
This coming Tuesday, as TIAA-CREF holds its annual shareholders meeting, join Chicago organizations and public figures including Chicago Divests, the American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace and Cantor Michael Davis, the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada, at a march and rally outside the Chicago TIAA-CREF offices. The rally and march will demand that the financial giant live up to its motto "For the Greater Good" and divest from all its holdings in companies profiting from the violation of international law and Palestinian human rights, as part of the growing natioan, coalition-led We Divest Campaign. Corresponding protests are taking place in New York City inside and outside of the shareholders meeting.
What -- Rally will begin at noon with speeches by Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council member Michael Davis, community leaders, and shareholders at the Thompson Center. Following the rally, demonstrators will march down LaSalle to the TIAA-CREF office with songs, music, and chants calling on TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
When & Where -- Tuesday, July 17:
Rally at 12pm noon at the Thompson Center (100 W. Randolph Street--in front of the white statue)
Protest at 12:45pm at the Chicago TIAA-CREF office (200 N. LaSalle St.)
Why: TIAA-CREF has made a historic decision to divest $72.9 million of Caterpillar stock from their Social Choice fund. But this is only the beginning! TIAA-CREF still invests over $900 million in Caterpillar in other portfolios. In addition, its Social Choice fund contains investments in Motorola Solutions, which developed the surveillance and communications systems for use in illegal Israeli settlements and the apartheid wall, and Hewlett-Packard, which owns the biometric monitoring system used in Israeli military checkpoints, provides data storage solutions for illegal Israeli settlements, and coordinates information technology for the Israeli Navy. TIAA-CREF also continues to hold onto its investments in Elbit, Veolia, Northrup Grumman, and Africa Israel, all of which are complicit in the illegal Israel occupation of Palestine.
Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
Endorsed by: Chicago Divests, American Friends Service Committee-Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago, Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. Israeli Apartheid; Siegebusters; WESPAC Foundation; and Women in Black, Union Square.
Chris, please:
1. RSVP on Facebook to attend the demonstration!
2. Register for the National Organizers Conference!
Support Our BDS Work Today
We can mobilize grassroot support for boycott and divestment campaigns only with grassroots support from people like you. Help us by making a tax-deductible donation, or by joining our Olive Branch Club to make a recurring tax-deductible donation.
--Anna
Support Palestinian farming families. Shop our fair-trade store.
Follow Us:
YouTube
Blog
Vimeo
Back to Top
The US Campaign aims to change U.S. policies that sustain Israel's 45-year occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, and that deny equal rights for all.
ABOUT | TAKE ACTION | GET INVOLVED | STORE | DONATE | RESOURCES | MEDIA | UNSUBSCRIBE | FORWARD TO A FRIEND
US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION | PO BOX 21539 | WASHINGTON, DC 20009
202-332-0994 | [email protected] | WWW.ENDTHEOCCUPATION.ORG