SF: Let's tell BlackRock to Stop Making a Killing on Killing
Start: Wednesday, May 23, 2018•12:00 PM
End: Wednesday, May 23, 2018• 2:00 PM
BlackRock
has billions of dollars invested in weapons companies such as Lockheed
Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Elbit, and General Dynamics. They
also invest in civilian gun manufacturers. They position themselves as a
company that is socially responsible, yet they continue to invest in
weapons. They are making a killing on killing. The misconduct by weapons
companies ranges from groundwater contamination to labor violations and
includes overinflated pricing and overbilling the federal government.
These companies are flagrantly engaging in bad business practices while
misusing limited federal resources. By investing in weapons
manufacturers, BlackRock is propping up wars, brutal conflicts, and
human rights violations on a global
scale. In addition to contributing to the atrocities of war, all five of
these companies have dozens of documented cases of misconduct and the
collective misuse of billions of federal dollars. BlackRock even has an
iShares fund that exclusively profits off of weapons of war.
Join us May 23 at 12pm as we gather at different offices across the US
to hold BlackRock to its own standards of being socially responsible by
divesting from Lockheed Martin and the military-industrial complex and
to say stop making a killing on killing.