L.A. Divest from Genocide!

    The administration of the City of Los Angeles City and the Board of Directors of LACERS retirement fund have invested millions of dollars directly in the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide. They own stocks in companies (both Israeli and U.S.) that manufacture weapons and surveillance technologies used against the Palestinian people, and in their war against Iran and Lebanon.
  The LACERS Board of Directors have invested in many companies that are listed on the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions list. They include buying into Israel's military sector, U.S. companies that supply and equip the genocide and occupation, and likely include German, French and UK companies on the list. That means that the Board of Directors of LACERS is using City employee's retirement money, (deducted from their paychecks) to help finance the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Gaza genocide, the attacks on Lebanon and Yemen, and the joint U.S./Israeli war on Iran!

              We are calling for total divestment from the machinery of genocide!
  The Mayor's office appoints 4 of the 7 directors of the LACERS retirement fund. We demand that the City government of Los Angeles and the Board of Directors of the LACERS fund divest from companies that contribute to the Israeli military’s horrific human rights abuses in Palestine.
  The LACERS retirement fund is mandatory for Los Angeles employees. 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 without their consent. Every worker deserves a comfortable retirement, but L.A. City workers should not be forced to fund genocide & war!