This notion that state public funds should be pressured to divest from oil stocks is not new...here is an article that I found regarding the neocons push to force the California State Teachers' Retirement System to divest from oil companies doing business with IRAN...I am suggesting that a fund like California State Teachers' Retirement System should be divesting stock ownership from ALL WARMAKING COMPANIES...
http://www.commondreams.org/...
In a previous posting...Sunday May 20 at about 4:30 pm Pacific Time, I pointed out that California State Teachers' Retirement System owns huge amounts of stock in Halliburton, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, BP Petroleum..additionally, there are huge holdings in Big Pharma...
All states have CAFR reports that will show you your state's funds and how they are invested...pressure should be put on state legislatures to force them to cause the funds to divest from ownership in warmaking companies...that is how we will be able to stop the war machine these greedy evil folks have put into place...
It is time to take our country back..that means challenging the power of corporations..it means seizing control of our legislatures...pushing back on the neocons...finding ways to survive BUSH...