In June 2025, our campaign provided CalSTRS with a list of equities (now updated in this comprehensive report) that are complicit in the Gaza genocide and Israel’s illegal settlements.

On August 1, 2025, we received an official letter from the CalSTRS Public Affairs office declining any future meetings with us.

With your help, we ramped up the pressure, and CalSTRS backtracked. We WON a meeting with their Investment Staff!  Now, we need to continue to escalate that pressure.

We insist that CalSTRS launch an internal investigation and assessment of equities detailed in our report, in accordance with CalSTRS’ 2024 Investment Policy for Mitigating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risks. According to their website, companies on our list have not yet been engaged with.

Additionally, we demand for CalSTRS to remove Israeli bonds from the portfolio entirely. As a high risk, low return investment, the choice to buy these bonds is not fiduciary, but political.

Take one minute to send a letter now to CalSTRS' board members demanding that they divest from Israel's genocide immediately.

With your help, we will make this an issue that CalSTRS cannot ignore.

In solidarity,
CalSTRS Divest campaign team