Results for: We Divest Campaign
Calls for Divestment Intensify as Retirement Fund Giant TIAA-CREF Drops Controversial Israeli Settlement Company
Yesterday, lawyers for the We Divest Coalition filed two letters (see here and here) with the U.S.
June 21, 2012- Pension fund giant TIAA-CREF has removed Caterpillar, Inc. from its Social Choice Funds portfolio. As of May 1, 2012, financial data posted on TIAA-CREF’s website valued Social Choice Funds shares in Caterpillar at $72,943,861. Today it is zero.
“We applaud this decision,” said Rabbi Alissa Wise, Director of Campaigns at Jewish Voice for Peace and National Coordinator of the We Divest Campaign (www.wedivest.org).