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Tell your L.A. City or L.A. County representative
DUMP INVESTMENTS IN GENOCIDE!
The administrations of Los Angeles City and County, and the Boards of Directors of retirement funds of City and County workers have hundreds of millions of dollars invested directly in the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, including companies (both Israeli and U.S.) that manufacture weapons and surveillance technologies used against the Palestinian people. We are calling for total divestment from the machinery of genocide!
Stand with us in urging the County and City governments of Los Angeles and the Boards of Directors of the LACERS, LAFFPP and LACERA funds to divest from companies that contribute to the Israeli military’s human rights abuses in Palestine.
These retirement funds are manditory for City and County employees, and the scheme to use the money to support genocide and war preys on struggling workers' hopes of a comfortable retirement by automatically deducting from their paychecks for pension contributions, then investing them without their consent into companies that have enabled so much death and destruction in Palestine and now in Lebanon and Iran. Workers do not want to retire at the expense of tens of thousands of lives!
1) Find out who your representative is: https://lacity.gov/neighborhoodinfo and return to this site
2) Grab your city councilor's or county supervisor's contact information here
3) Use the sample emails below or create your own email to tell them to DIVEST from GENOCIDE NOW!
Email your city councilor!
Eunisses Hernandez –
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org
Paul Krekorian –
councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org
Bob Blumenfield –
councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org
Nithya Raman –
contactcd4@lacity.org
Katy Yaroslavsky –
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org
Imelda Padilla –
councilmember.padilla@lacity.org
Monica Rodriguez –
councilmember.rodriguez@lacity.org
Marqueece Harris-Dawson –
councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org
Marqueece Harris-Dawson –
councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org
Curren D. Price, Jr. –
councilmember.price@lacity.org
Heather Hutt –
cd10@lacity.org
Traci Park –
councilmember.park@lacity.org
John Lee –
councilmember.lee@lacity.org
Hugo Soto-Martínez –
councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org
Ysabel J. Jurado –
councilmember.jurado@lacity.org
Tim McOsker –
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org
Feel free to use these Email samples to send to your City Councilor
or County Supervisor, or write one of your own!
Dear City Councilor _________________ ____________,
As my City Councilor, it is incumbent on you to take action to end worker’s retirement funds being used to further the military onslaught that Trump and Netanyahu are carrying out.
The combined military forces of the US and Israel are continuing murder and terror in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon. Racist settler violence and the theft of Palestinian homes and land in the West Bank is rampant. The war on Iran has already destroyed industry, infrastructure, agriculture and hospitals and Israel's war against the people of Lebanon has taken the lives of nearly 3,500 people and displaced more than a million. With the genocidal assault on Gaza already having taken many tens of thousands of lives, the so-called cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon are completely ineffective.
Funds for retired Los Angeles city workers, are being invested in Israeli firms – many of them directly and indirectly involved in the genocide in Gaza and now supporting an assault on Iran that brings us to the brink of WWIII. Both funds – LACERS and LAFFPP are being used in this manner are also being invested in U.S. arms manufacturers.
Los Angeles should make history as a city that stood up against illegal war and genocide - instead of having enabled the murder of children, women, aged people, and men.
Sincerely,
___________ _________
Dear County Supervisor _________________ ____________,
As my LA County Supervisor, it is incumbent on you to take action to end worker’s retirement funds being used to further the military onslaught that Trump and Netanyahu are carrying out.
The combined military forces of the US and Israel are continuing murder and terror in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon. Racist settler violence and the theft of Palestinian homes and land in the West Bank is rampant. The war on Iran has already destroyed industry, infrastructure, agriculture and hospitals and Israel's war against the people of Lebanon has taken the lives of nearly 3,500 people and displaced more than a million. With the genocidal assault on Gaza already having taken many tens of thousands of lives, the so-called cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon are completely ineffective.
Funds for retired Los Angeles County workers, are being invested in Israeli firms – many of them directly and indirectly involved in the genocide in Gaza and now supporting an assault on Iran that brings us to the brink of WWIII.
Los Angeles County should make history as having stood up against illegal war and genocide, instead of having enabled the murder of children, women, aged people, and men.
Sincerely,
___________ _________
The city of Los Angeles needs to sever all ties with the genocidal entity that occupies Palestine.
L.A. has a sister city relationship with a Red Sea coast city called Eilat. Eilat is headquarters to the Zionist military's Red Sea coast navy base. That base is where they have fired missiles at Yemen from.
The city government also allows billions of dollars (That's not a typo - we mean billions with a B!) of retired city workers pension funds to be invested in Israeli military stocks.
(Click the image to the left so you can see the list of investments with large investment groups that buy into the genocide)
The mayor's office appoints the majority of the board of directors of three different retirees' pension funds, while city workers and retirees have very little say in the matter. We're focusing for the time being on the LACERS fund - valued above $25 billion.
We hope you can get involved with this ongoing campaign. Attend the press conference on Feb 25 at 9 am. If you agree that exposing the L.A. city governments under-the-radar support for genocide in Occupied Palestine is important, then please feel free to speak at the press conference. Email info@harriettubmancenterla.com to endorse on behalf of your organization, church group or student group. You don't have to be in an organization. Individual activists are welcome to join in this effort!
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