I Broke Up with My Banks!

Finally, in late February I moved our money out of Chase and Wells Fargo banks because they are two of the largest banks in the world putting money into fossil fuel expansion. Soon thereafter, it was Bank of America.

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State Treasurer Fiona Ma Stands with Teachers and Youth at CalSTRS

Fiona Ma, State Treasurer and ex officio Board Member of the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), broke ranks with the Board’s Investment Committee on Thursday, standing with public school students and teachers in their demands for fossil fuel divestment. “Where we invest our money reflects our values, and we should be valuing a clean…

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Divest ExxonMobil first! (Why wait???)

Here’s Bill McKibben protesting at a local gas station in Vermont — calling attention to the growing scandal around Exxon Mobil. Recent reporting reveals that climate studies commissioned by ExxonMobil in the early 1980s could have changed the course of human events — if Exxon hadn’t used them for internal profit-related purposes while publicly continuing…

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