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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. Juni 2012 / Time Line June 21, 2012
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Fredrik Bajer fødes, 1837.
06/21/2012
Victories in Caterpillar Divestment This Week -- And To Come!
Caterpillar was removed from the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) World Socially Responsible Index, a list used by Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds to discern acceptable companies for investment.
Then, before we knew it, financial retirement fund giant TIAA-CREF followed suit and divested its Social Choice Funds from Caterpillar! Caterpillar shares in the funds were valued at more than $72 million when last posted.
For ten years, the US Campaign has challenged Caterpillar Corporation's practices of providing Israel with weaponized bulldozers used for demolishing Palestinian homes, razing Palestinian olive groves, building Israel's Apartheid Wall, and killing and maiming unarmed civilians. Caterpillar exemplifies U.S. corporate complicity in the commission of Israeli war crimes and violations of Palestinian rights.
This is arguably the largest -- though certainly not the first -- victory to date the Stop Caterpillar Campaign and in the "We Divest" Campaign to compel TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation, writes From: Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
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