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"provider_name": "Action Network",
"provider_url": "https://actionnetwork.org",
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"author_name": "CalSTRS Divest",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/calstrs-divest",
"title": "CalSTRS: Divest from Genocide",
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"description": "We are calling on educators, voters, tax-payers, organizations, and unions to stand with us in urging the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) to divest from companies that contribute to the Israeli military’s human rights abuses in Palestine. This pension fund made specifically for teachers preys on struggling teachers' hopes of a comfortable retirement by automatically pulling money from their paychecks for pension contributions, then investing them without their consent into companies that are enabling genocide and human rights violations around the globe. Teachers, who are committed to children and to building a better future, do not want to retire at the expense of innocent lives. CalSTRS has billions of dollars invested in the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, including companies that manufacture and deliver weapons and surveillance technologies used in armed conflict. Some examples are: Boeing’s products have enabled deaths and devastation in communities around the globe, including Palestine. Boeing made the most guided bombs and munitions delivered to Israel of any U.S. company from 2021-2023. CalSTRS owns $198,608,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. General Dynamics Corporation has been accused of assisting in the militarization of the US-Mexico Border and providing unlawful surveillance of immigrant communities. General Dynamics Corporation makes the metal bodies for the MK-80 bomb series, one of the primary aerial munitions used to bomb Gaza. CalSTRS owns $84,751,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Caterpillar Inc. stands accused of providing the giant bulldozers that have been and continue to be responsible for the illegal home demolitions of thousands of Palestinians and the infamous murder of American activist Rachel Corrie. CalSTRS owns $213,827,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Palantir Technologies Inc. stands accused of enabling wholesale violations of human rights of asylum seekers and migrants by providing technology used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that ultimately led to the detention and separation of migrant children. CalSTRS owns $44,875,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Valero Energy is known for poisoning communities, endangering the climate and providing jet fuel for warplanes. CalSTRS owns over $95,000,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Elbit Systems is the largest Israeli weapons company and a major research and development partner to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. CalSTRS owns approximately $7,275,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Zim Shipping is Israel’s largest shipping company, and has been blockaded and protested due to its commitment to transporting cargo to Israel during its bombardment of Gaza, including weapons that are used to kill and oppress Palestinians. CalSTRS owns approximately $1,317,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023. Maersk has transported over $300 million of weapons components for the top five weapons manufacturers for assembly in the United States, which is the world’s largest supplier of military weapons. CalSTRS owns approximately $22,316,000 worth of shares in this company as of June 2023.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/calstrs-divest-from-genocide"
}