On December 12th, members of the Israel Divestment Campaign submitted a divestment petition to the California Public Employees Retirement System. Of the 1.6 million members of CalPers, only 837 signed the petition.
The numbers were equally bleak for CalStrs. Only 545 out of the 852,316 Californians with their pension funds invested in CalStrs signed the petion. Its yet another epic fail for the California Divestment Campaign, which earlier this year had failed to get the even minimum number of signitures to have their divestment initiative placed on the California ballot.
Israel Divestment Campaign- Kiss my BDS.
Showing posts with label Israel Divestment campaign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel Divestment campaign. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
To CalPERS and CalSTRS : California Rejects Divestment
Its been 8 month and the divestment petition urging CalPRES and CalSTRS to divest from companies doing business in Israel is going down for the third time. After 8 months, less than 5,000 names are on the petition- the vast majority identifying themselves only as "California taxpayers"- with no funds invested in CalPERS or CalSTRS.
Organizers are in panic mode. The original intention was to present the petition to Fund administrators on Dec.12, no doubt accompanied by massive press releases declaring "California urges divestment from Israeli Apartheid"
From Sherna Gluck via Al Awda.
Note the charming new definition of "California tax-payer"- anyone who makes a purchase in California.
"We are getting down to the wire, going to PERS Investment Committee on December 12th with the IDC petition and a pretty compelling report/argument. We are making a final push in order to reach 5,000 signatures. Another 100 +_/- will do it.l Please forward widely to all your contacts in California. .
Remember, anyone who nakes any purchase in California is a tax-payer, so that means students, too.
ANYTHING you can do to help us reach that goal would be fantastic."
Onward!
Sherna
Dear Friends,
On December 12th, members of the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) will be presenting a petition to CalPERS (the Public Employee Retirement System), the largest public pension fund in the US) calling on it to start the process that leads to divestment. The campaign has targeted some of the companies that facilitate/profit from Israeli violation of human rights, International law, and UN Resolutions, including: Caterpillar, Elbit and Veolia.
I hope that you will help the campaign reach its goal by signing the petition online today! www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org/petition.htm
and be sure to respond to the automated message after you sign asking you to confirm your signature.
I signed, won't you?
December 1st, 2011
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on its members and supporters to join the global effort to bring freedom and justice to Palestine.
This is the most significant BDS Project based in California and we need your help and support.
On December 12th, members of the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) will be presenting its petition to CalPERS (the Public Employee Retirement System), the largest public pension fund in the US, calling on it to start the process that leads to divestment. They have targeted some of the companies that facilitate/profit from Israeli violation of human rights, International law, and UN Resolutions, including: Caterpillar, Elbit and Veolia.
Help the campaign reach its goal by signing the petition online today!:
israeldivestmentcampaign.org/petition.htm
Be sure to respond to the automated message after you sign asking you to confirm your signature.
Please distribute this email widely!
Al Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
What can you do? Drop CalPERS a line. Ask them to ignore the haters, and not to capitulate to extremist political groups while investing your retirement money.
Organizers are in panic mode. The original intention was to present the petition to Fund administrators on Dec.12, no doubt accompanied by massive press releases declaring "California urges divestment from Israeli Apartheid"
From Sherna Gluck via Al Awda.
Note the charming new definition of "California tax-payer"- anyone who makes a purchase in California.
"We are getting down to the wire, going to PERS Investment Committee on December 12th with the IDC petition and a pretty compelling report/argument. We are making a final push in order to reach 5,000 signatures. Another 100 +_/- will do it.l Please forward widely to all your contacts in California. .
Remember, anyone who nakes any purchase in California is a tax-payer, so that means students, too.
ANYTHING you can do to help us reach that goal would be fantastic."
Onward!
Sherna
Dear Friends,
On December 12th, members of the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) will be presenting a petition to CalPERS (the Public Employee Retirement System), the largest public pension fund in the US) calling on it to start the process that leads to divestment. The campaign has targeted some of the companies that facilitate/profit from Israeli violation of human rights, International law, and UN Resolutions, including: Caterpillar, Elbit and Veolia.
I hope that you will help the campaign reach its goal by signing the petition online today! www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org/petition.htm
and be sure to respond to the automated message after you sign asking you to confirm your signature.
I signed, won't you?
December 1st, 2011
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on its members and supporters to join the global effort to bring freedom and justice to Palestine.
This is the most significant BDS Project based in California and we need your help and support.
On December 12th, members of the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) will be presenting its petition to CalPERS (the Public Employee Retirement System), the largest public pension fund in the US, calling on it to start the process that leads to divestment. They have targeted some of the companies that facilitate/profit from Israeli violation of human rights, International law, and UN Resolutions, including: Caterpillar, Elbit and Veolia.
Help the campaign reach its goal by signing the petition online today!:
israeldivestmentcampaign.org/petition.htm
Be sure to respond to the automated message after you sign asking you to confirm your signature.
Please distribute this email widely!
Al Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
What can you do? Drop CalPERS a line. Ask them to ignore the haters, and not to capitulate to extremist political groups while investing your retirement money.
Friday, March 25, 2011
California divestment campaign. Going from Failure to Failure
Californians, it never ends.
Phase I of the Israel Divestment Campaign has ended. In failure. Complete failure. Simply , people could not be persuaded, bribed or cajoled or even mislead into signing the statewide California divestment initiative. Rumor has it that the haters were unable to gather even 10 % of the needed signatures for the referendum to appear on the ballot. But they aren't admitting it,not publicly anyway.
But, wait. Building on their previous failure, the Israel Divestment campaign has lowered the bar. the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is launching Phase II of their campaign to annoy California citizens on March 30th
Their announcement: "We will be taking a new turn in our campaign as we organize to exert more direct pressure on the two largest public pension funds in the U.S. - the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (California PERS and STRS)to divest from companies that facilitate Israel's blah blah blah...." I'm paraphrasing....
Yep. Its another petition. But this one won't have those pesky checks and balances of the statewide divestment initiative.
I've got an idea, IDC. When you ask people to sign your petition, ask people if they want their investments to earn them maximum return? Do they really want to divest from a country that, according to Bloomberg news "bounced back from the global recession faster than many developed economies, with growth accelerating to 7.7 percent in the last quarter of 2010, the fastest pace in four years.?"
If its a choice of maximum return on your pension, or advancing a deeply flawed ideology, its seems like a no-brainer, California. And thats precisely why the BDS'ers are on the wrong side, yet again.
Phase I of the Israel Divestment Campaign has ended. In failure. Complete failure. Simply , people could not be persuaded, bribed or cajoled or even mislead into signing the statewide California divestment initiative. Rumor has it that the haters were unable to gather even 10 % of the needed signatures for the referendum to appear on the ballot. But they aren't admitting it,not publicly anyway.
But, wait. Building on their previous failure, the Israel Divestment campaign has lowered the bar. the Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is launching Phase II of their campaign to annoy California citizens on March 30th
Their announcement: "We will be taking a new turn in our campaign as we organize to exert more direct pressure on the two largest public pension funds in the U.S. - the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (California PERS and STRS)to divest from companies that facilitate Israel's blah blah blah...." I'm paraphrasing....
Yep. Its another petition. But this one won't have those pesky checks and balances of the statewide divestment initiative.
I've got an idea, IDC. When you ask people to sign your petition, ask people if they want their investments to earn them maximum return? Do they really want to divest from a country that, according to Bloomberg news "bounced back from the global recession faster than many developed economies, with growth accelerating to 7.7 percent in the last quarter of 2010, the fastest pace in four years.?"
If its a choice of maximum return on your pension, or advancing a deeply flawed ideology, its seems like a no-brainer, California. And thats precisely why the BDS'ers are on the wrong side, yet again.
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