Tired of hearing about things going wrong and feeling helpless to do anything about that? There are many who felt that way themselves — before they decided to act on their values. Your choices do make a difference, both in joining others and modeling actions for them. The Greenbelt movement begun by an African woman, Wangari Maathai, has resulted in the planting of billions of trees worldwide. In the US countless others have created urban gardens as community centers producing healthy food and sharing knowledge, transforming some of our most violent areas of urban blight into places of security and hope.
The list goes on: you will perhaps never know all the ways that your smallest actions inspire others but by taking action, you honor yourself, making a concrete statement that your values matter.
Here are some ways you can support a healthy environment and just society. Some of these are dated, but their links will also allow you to connect with like minded citizens. Perhaps you will think of others yourself!
2012
Fight Corporate Control of Congress
A citizen corporate watchdog has termed the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) the “most powerful organization you have never heard of“. It writes legislation for state legislatures to pass verbatim– such as the “stand your ground” laws that support vigilante justice and the killing of Trayvon Martin and Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law sponsored by the private prison industry in the state. Other ALEC legislation written on behalf of its corporate sponsors has weakened environmental regulation, attacked unions, and given corporations millions of dollars in “perverse subsidies”.
And who funds the ALEC? Exxon-Mobil is high on the list, but so is Johnson and Johnson.
Add your name to the over 50,000 who are petitioning Johnson and Johnson to uphold their “family-friendly image” and drop their funding of the ALEC.
Support the EPA’s new nationwide carbon limits
On March 27, 2012, the EPA made its first ever ruling on nationwide carbon limitation. With worldwide flooding, drought, unprecedented temperature swings and winds, it is about time we did something about global climate change. However, the new EPA standards are already under attack.
Don’t let this change in the right direction be undermined. Register your support for the EPA decision.
Flood Congress with Support for Climate Action
In spite of the millions spent on a disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry, over ninety per cent of scientists concur that unstable weather patterns including floods and drought, melting ice caps and rising seas, can be stemmed if we reverse our unprecedented carbon output. The United States, responsible for a disproportionate amount of carbon output with respect to its population is a good place to start. Join the Union of Concerned Scientists and tell Congress that we want climate action now.
Safeguard our democracy by supporting people over corporations
The US democracy rests on the premise of one person/one vote, but when corporations get to spend unlimited dollars to support candidates favorable to them– and “invest” their money in lobbying Congress (thereby earning $200 in government favors for every $! they spend on lobbyists), our government reflects the interests of money rather than people.
To learn more about the hist0ry of how this came about, view a fun and informative video by Annie Leonard (“Story of Stuff”).
On the same site, you can also choose to join the 85 per cent of US citizens who feel corporations have too much power by adding your signature to a proposed constitutional amendment denying corporations the rights of human being (as our law currently has it).
An opportunity for students to become involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists
Here is an opportunity that comes with the new year. Join the Young Scientists Initiative of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which works relate the latest scientific data (unbiased by commercial concerns) to public policy choices.
2011
A Holiday Gift of Safer Chemicals
Send Congress a holiday greeting with this wish. You can choose whether or no9t to attach a family photo.
Join the Union of Concerned Scientists in calling for the labeling of genetically engineered food
Here is a quote from the UCS website indicating what you should tell the FDA in your own words:
“Recent research sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists and others has shown that the widespread adoption of GE crops has led to increased herbicide use, while falling short of the biotech industry’s promises for higher yields and more efficient fertilizer use. More modern, scientifically advanced agricultural practices are achieving many of the objectives of GE crops, without many of the downsides.”
Urge your Congressperson to support the Safe Chemicals Act
This Thursday, November 17 is the date of the landmark Congressional hearing on the Safe Chemicals Act that would put health over profits by instituting the precautionary principle currently used in the EU. It is essential to lend our support to this act in the face of the assault on environmental standards by certain members of Congress.
Sign on to the National Climate Ethics Campaign
The latest study (last week) shows a shocking rise in US carbon emissions. See Scripts Data for comparative measurements. We can expect unstable weather patterns, drought and flooding in the short term and climate change in the long term that will severely impact the ability of life (including humans) to survive in the ecosystems to which they have natural adapted in the long term. Only the concerted ad and lobbying campaign of big oil and big coal keeps us from doing something about this. Sign on to this climate change ethics statement to urge national officials to step up to their responsibility in this regard.
Urge Governor Kitzhaber to designate marine reserves
These reserves were unanimously recommended by the Ocean Policy Advisory Committee last December after 25,000 hours of volunteer effect. Time to implement these recommendations.
Support safer chemicals for your family and the environment
Since the industrial revolution, industries have hidden dangers of chemicals: for instance, in the case of tobacco, lead, pvc and pesticides– and until the public gets this information, their health and that of the shared environment that sustains us have suffered. (See The Secret History of the War on Cancer, and Deceit and Denial for more detail on these histories). With increasingly persistent and toxic chemicals being manufactured, we can no longer afford the luxury of ignorance concerning the over 60,000 human-made chemicals we have released into our environment.
Signing this pledge will put you in line to receive weekly emails from the Safer Chemicals coalition of health care workers, cancer specialists, environmentalists and concerned citizens that give you ways to protect both yourself and the environment with your choice of chemical usage.
Support local food production and marketing networks
In line with “Market Forces”, the recent report of the Union of Concerned Scientists indicating the cost effective and sustainable benefits of local food production, ask Congress to invest in the future of healthy, local produced food. Currently, industrial agriculture receives subsidies equal to 44 per cent of its costs to produce food in ways that are detrimental to both the environment and human health. It is time to be smart enough to change this.
Posted 9.8.2011
Support clean air standards that protect human health and the environment
UPDATE 9.9.2011: Unfortunately, Obama recently directed the EPA to void its suggested regulations for tougher clean air standards (which according to its own statistics would save 20,000 lives a year!)
Here is a suggestion for a response from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
Go to the White House Facebook Page and post the link http://ucsusa.org/ozonedecision and this image and a short message will load. Then you can add your own personal message expressing your disappointment and urging the president not to let science take a back seat at the White House.
Former action alert: Urge President Obama to protect human health and curtail global warming gasses by directing the EPA to release and enforce strong clean air standards by curtailing emissions from our nation’s dirtiest coal fired plants and oil refineries. According to data assembled by the Union of Concerned Scientists, unchecked global warming could increase ground-level ozone resulting in 2.8 million more occurrences of serious respiratory illnesses such as asthma attacks and $5.4 billion in health-related costs just nine years from now.
Posted 7.19.2011; updated 9.8.2011
Set mercury standards in line with scientific data about its harms
Mercury is one of our most toxic and persistent pollutants and one about which we have a good deal of scientific data on its role in nerve damage, in catalyzing diabetes (among native populations eating fish in which mercury and pesticides are concentrated, for instance), and in inciting premature births. It is time to set strong standards with regard to the release of this heavy metal into our environment– as the European Union already has. Urge the EPA to do this, standing strong against coal industry lobbyists who are putting profits–and real data– above health. This is not a jobs versus environment issue: for every $1 spent on the measures of mercury cut-back, it is estimated that the American taxpayer will see $13 in benefits, in addition to eliminating the need for expensive treatment of mercury-caused illnesses.
Posted 6.29.2011
Urge Congress to Properly Regulate Toxic Chemicals
Our Toxic Chemicals Regulatory Act is several decades old and not responsive to the vast majority of chemicals to which humans and other lives in our ecological communities are exposed. Ask Congress to change that by bringing our regulations in line not only with contemporary science but with responsible citizenry as the European Union has done.
Posted 6.5.2011
Protest US Chamber of Commerce’s undermining of climate change action
The US Chamber of Commerce recently issued a public statement that climate change is no problem- since we can readily adapt to a “warmer climate”. But the people currently hit by unprecedented tornadoes, floods and droughts know differently. Over 6,000 business and 32 local chambers of commerce have made statements asserting that the US Chamber of Commerce does not speak for them–and we need proactive strategies to cut back our carbon emissions and protect the climate in which all life on earth currently learned to flourish. Here is your opportunity to address climate change in a specific and important way.
Posted 5.24.2011
80 per cent of antibi9otics in the US are currently used in poultry and beef production. Support the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 965), to protect the efficacy of anti-biotics for human use. Prohibiting the use of anti-biotics in the feed of animals raised on factory farms might also force such farms to use other ways to maintain the health of their animals, such as alleviating crowding and allowing animals daily exercise.
Defend Labor Education and Academic Freedom
Stand with labor educator Judy Ancel (University of Missouri) and against deceptive media meant to discredit her and undermine academic freedom. This is the current project of Andrew Breitbart, who circulated the deceptive video that led to Congress de-funding ACORN before the deception was exposed. Breitbart then turned his attention to USDA official Shirley Sherrod – nearly ruining her career before the NAACP and the Obama administration viewed the actual speech from which Breitbart had cut and pasted his misleading and inflammatory video.
Our democracy needs good information, not the defamation of these good people who work to tell the truth.
Posted 5.7.2011
Tell the Obama Administration to Protect the Grand Canyon
Over 100 permits for mining near the Grand Canyon are currently being considered for approval by Secretary Salazar. Let him know what US citizens think of this. This action alert closes 5.4.2011.
Posted 5.2.2011
Natural Farming and Permaculture
Our current quote of the week refers to a report which finds that “natural farming” protects vital water resources, improves crop flavor and nutrition, and better protects crops against pests than does commercial agriculture. Want some ideas about how to try natural farming techniques in your own farm or garden, large or small? The Permaculture Activist has a host of resources.
Posted 4.17.2011
Stop Testing of Pesticides on Human Subjects
Join the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Campaign to stop EPA approval of testing of new chemicals, especially pesticides, on human subjects. Under its latest rules, EPA not only endorses human testing with tax dollars, but is encouraging industry to conduct human subject experiments. After-market exposure to pesticides is bad enough; we do not need before-market testing of toxic chemicals on humans– especially those in areas of the globe who are desperate for any money at all to be earned by being such a test subject.
Posted 4.9.11
Make the next Farm Bill Responsive to Current Scientific Research
Urge Congress to support programs in line with a recent study by the Union of Concerned Scientists that indicates ways agriculture can support soil fertility and decrease carbon emissions. The Farm Bill should support these practices rather than those which may profit agribusiness but harm human and environmental health.
Posted 4.3.2011
Tell General Electric: Pay your Taxes
While essential social services are cut from the national budget, corporations like General Electric not only escape responsibility for paying their share, but earn tax credits. Here are some stats to ponder: GE’s 2010 earnings: $26 billion; federal taxes paid: zero; money spent lobbying Congress to keep their tax free status: tens of millions; number of GE employees employed full time in avoiding taxes and designing and taking advantage of loopholes: 965; IRS tax benefit earned: $4.1 billion. (“G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether,” David Kocieniewski, New York Times, March 24, 2011.)
Posted 3.30.2011
Demand States Use Best Available Technology to Cut Global Warming Emissions
In November 2011, the EPA released guidance about the kinds of pollution control technologies and best practices state agencies should consider when issuing these permits. Most states already intend to comply with the EPA’s recommendations because they are practical and affordable. Learn more about the steps the EPA must take to reduce global warming emissions.
Unfortunately, however, coal and oil industries are attacking the EPA’s guidance. Please urge your governor to ensure your state complies with the EPA’s technology guidance to helps create real global warming emissions reductions. The Union of Concerned Scientists has a letter you can modify and send online to do this.
Posted 3.19.2011
End production of “killer jeans”
Sandblasting jeans to soften denim before purchase causes deadly lung disease in workers. Sign the “manifesto against sandblasting” that a few companies with conscience have already agree to. Turkey recently ended the manual sandblasting of clothing and the silicosis rate of their garment workers plummeted, though aftercare for known victims is still an issue.
Levi-Strauss, fashion giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), retailer C&A and many others have banned manual sandblasting, but a few conservative corporations employing third world workers continue it.
Garment workers also deserve a living wage. From the Clean Clothes campaign:
In Asia, where the bulk of garment production takes place, a growing coalition of local organisations has a concrete proposal on the table – a calculation for an Asia Floor Wage. Giant retailers can make a real commitment to ending poverty wages in the workplaces that supply their shops by working with the Asia Floor Wage alliance to take concrete steps to implement a living wage.
Posted 3.13.2011
Save the honeybees (additional actions and information)
Honeybees and natural pollinators are especially vulnerable to a new group of systemic pesticides called nicotinoids. At very low levels, exposure to nectar, pollen, and leaf dew of treated plants is implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder, which ravaged bee populations in the US to such an extent that bees needed to be flown in from Australia to pollinate crops. (Thirty per cent of current US crops are reliant on bees and natural pollinators.) These chemicals have been banned in four European countries, and in France (where the ban came quickly) bee populations are recovering as a result. See the “do not buy” list button for a list of the brand names for nicotinoids.
Posted 3.7.2011
Join with “mayors against illegal guns” to change the fact that 34 citizens die from gun violence daily in the US with two common sense points. Demand that previously violent persons, especially perpetrators of domestic violence, be put in a national computer data base and that this database be checked every time a gun is sold in the US.
Posted 2.28.2011
Make Corporate Tax Breaks Transparent
Help prevent dishonest corporations from abusing tax subsidy programs by asking your state legislators to make corporate tax subsidies transparent to the public.
Posted 2.13.2011
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Stop Corporate Backed Attempts to Water Down the Clean Air Act
No corporation should be exempt from following the standards of the Clean Air Act, as a number of bills being prepared in Congress now propose. Clean Air belongs to all of us; we need to fight the epidemic of children’s asthma and heart and lung disease linked to air pollution, not sell our rights to health to the highest bidder. Join Earthjustice in emailing your Congressional representatives on this issue.
Posted 2.5.2011
Sign bottled water free pledge
Join the Environmental Working Group’s pledge to boycott bottled water. Not only is bottled water responsible for large amounts of floating sea plastic, but bottled water companies are working to buy up Western water supplies, including those in traditional Winnemem territory, which would decimate the river that is their ceremonial home where they are working to restore traditional salmon stocks. See here for an outline of the true cost of bottled water.
With a little thought (simply bring your own bottle when you are away from home), we can do away with this minor convenience for us and major burden on the environment.
Support municipal and nati0nal water bans in the US and abroad– wherever populations understand how precious clean water is to our lives.
Posted 1.30.2011
Ban bee-killing pesticide
Since 2006, honey bee populations have been in steep decline globally. Locally, in the last year the Lane County Beekeepers surveyed beekeepers, they lost 47 per cent of their hives. Especially troubling is “colony collapse disorder” when a hive of bees suddenly disappears (honey bees characteristically leave the hive to die). An analysis of the honey bee genome indicated they may bee an indicator species, since they do not have the genetic ability to detoxify pesticides and they have body hairs that served them to collect pollen which causes them to trap chemical contaminants. A recent assay of bee bodies found residues of 98 different pesticides in a single bee.
At the same time, bees are essential to the pollination of the majority of US crops. There is enough evidence that neonicotinoid pesticides like clothianidin are especially toxic to bees that particular European countries have banned these pesticides to protect their honey population. Tell the EPA to do the same in the US– in spite of industry pressure to ignore the data.
Posted 1.23.2011
End Corporate Personhood
Corporations are not persons and should not have the same rights. Giving these powerful entities such rights (rather than responsibilities) undermines the the equality between individuals essential to democracy. Abuses in elections, legislation, and “perverse subsidies” result from handing over the rights of persons to corporations. Help change the legal precedent that makes corporations into “persons” with substantially more legal privileges and protections that the ordinary US citizen.
posted 1.16.2011
Submit your comment with respect to gmo alfalfa
And let the FDA know that what you think about gmos contaminating organics. Without labeling, in fact, buying organic is one of the few ways you can avoid gmos. See here for others. It is time for federal regulators to put science (and the health of the public and the environment we depend upon) above Monsanto’s profits.
posted 1.2.2011
2010
(These are listed in chronological order of the date posted).
Require labeling of genetically engineered food (Posted 8.8.2010)
Support house bill requiring labeling of genetically engineered foods. For more information, see top 10 reasons to label genetically engineered food
Support the Kid Safe Chemicals Act that would require that new chemicals be proven safe before they are released into the environment. It is inexcusable to make our children guinea pigs in a massive chemical experiment. Requiring knowledge of chemicals before their release is no more than what the EU has already done. (Posted 8.15.2010) Support the Kid Safe Chemicals Act now in Congressional committee.
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Prohibit routine antibiotic use in food animals. Such antibiotics are routinely added to animal food for no other reason than to speed animal growth, in spite of growing scientific consensus that such use is a predominant cause of antibiotic resistance in increasingly virulent strains of bacteria. Support FDA’s move to prohibit routine antibiotic use in food animal (posted 8.23.2010)
Support California’s progressive global climate change initiative. If the US Congress will not step up the plate on this issue of pressing concern to the survival of life on our planet, it is heartening that California has. But the CEO of Valero oil has a plant to undermine this legislation through a corporate-funded initiative to recall it. Tell him that you will boycott oil companies that make such a move. Tell Texas oil companies that you will not buy from companies who use such tactics to boost their profit at the cost of life on our planet. (posted 8.28,2010)
Protest BP’s drilling permit for offshore Alaska. Hard to believe, but in the wake of BP’s protestations about its sincerity about making good on the repercussions of the Gulf Oil, it has put in a permit to drill off Alaska’s coast. They certainly have not improved the technology that caused the Gulf spill– and we don’t need a repeat performance in Alaska. Tell President Obama that BP should not be given a permit to drill in offshore Alaska. (posted 9.5.2010)
Make our tax structure more fair
The disparity between rich and poor in this country continues to grow along with our national debt. We have had ample time to see the economic woes that Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy have gained us . Time to cut them loose.
And while we are at it, we might assess the lopsided salary differential between CEOs and their workers in the US, especially those responsible for the most worker layoffs and the 20 billion annually lost in tax loopholes. (posted 9.13.2010)
Put human rights at the heart of UN millennium goals
Every 90 seconds, a woman – most likely living in poverty – dies giving birth. We can change this with UN support for these women’s human rights Add your name to the Amnesty International Petition to make human rights central to the UN agenda. Importantly, many of these women did not choose pregnancy, but are suffering from a type of abuse identified as “pregnancy coercion” by two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters in Half the Sky. There is also an analysis of this issue, “Violence Against Women and Unintended Pregnancy” in the the Women’s Health Activist.
Giving these women economic and political rights also supports an environmental agenda, since, as the UN has consistently reported for the last ten years, the most effective way to lower global family size is to raise the economic status of women. See the UN report on women and violence for more information. .(posted 9.18.2010).
Plant at least one thing you can eat
Then tend and care for it. It can be in a pot in your living room, in your backyard, or in a community garden (see the picture of the “common ground” garden of land reclaimed from what had been slated to be a paved street at the bottom of the left sidebar here). Make just this one small move to improve your relationship with the natural world that sustains us all. The authors of A Nation of Farmers ask, “What’s in your “victory garden”?
Stop social security cuts
The social security system is funded entirely by workers and their employers. By 2023 the system will have a 4.3 trillion dollar surplus, which is necessary for stabilizing this system in the years to come. Social security is the major form of retirement and disability security for those who are working without benefits , especially women and those in part time and minimum wage jobs. These workers do not deserve to be labeled, as the Republican chair of National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform recently called them, “320 million tits” feeding off a “national cash cow”. Stop the move to raise the retirement age, cut back benefits, or privatize social security (do you really want your future dependent on Wall Street?) while CEOs for Wall Street bailout firms are earning over 200 times their average employee. Posted 9.26.2010
Regulate coal ash as an environmental hazard
Use the comment period to weigh in on the alternative that fits the science in the EPA’s two choices of whether to regulate coal ash as a hazardous or non-hazardous waste. As against the lobbyists of the mining industry, 250 health and environmental organizations are asking that the industry be responsible for cleaning up the hazardous waste it leaves behind. Join your voice with theirs.
Posted 10.2/2010
Get rid of the Senate filibuster
Join groups pressuring the Senate to update its rules and get rid of this antiquated and undemocratic process, which allows a single person to hold up the passage of important legislation by simply holding the floor.
Posted 10. 11.2010.
Support the Fair Elections Now Act
This bi-partisan act legislating full disclosure of campaign financing has recently passed out of House committee. With the recent flood of corporate monies into US political campaigns, this reform is needed to guarantee the democratic process in electing our officials. See the non-profit non-partisan site of The Campaign Legal Center for additional information on ethics, media, and campaign financing.
It never hurts to support this in as many ways as possible: here is another.
Posted 10.17.2010/ 11.14/2010
Protest US Chamber of Commerce’s shady campaign ads
Demand an investigation into the sources of the Chamber’s $75 million in campaign ads and call 202 659-600 to tell Chamber CEO Thomas Donahue that pouring secret money into false and inflammatory campaign ads is no way to bolster the US economy.
Posted 10.24.2010
Protest violence at political rallies and voting booths
MoveOn.org member Lauren Valle suffered a concussion at a political debate after she was thrown to the ground and pinned there while a Tea Party member stomped on her head. Valle suffered a concussion as a result. This assault was caught on film by a local newspaper reporter.
Stand with Lauren (and against Tea Party violence at political rallies and now, voting booths, in hysteria geared to discourage minority voters), by signing the MoveOn petition that says, “You can’t stomp on us!”
See slideshow of the cross section of citizens holding signs with this message here. “Together”, as MoveOn says, “We can stop the violence.”
Posted 10.27.2010
Tell EPA to set strong smog standards
The EPA estimates that setting the standard at 60 parts per billion (ppb) would save between 4,000 and 12,000 lives per year. There is no excuse not to follow the science and enact these standards.
Posted 11.2.2010
Help pass the DISCLOSE Act in this session of Congress
The only hope for fair elections is that the voting public know who is funding campaign ads. This knowledge motivated the resoundingly defeat of two California state initiatives massively funded by Texas oil companies attacking California’s progressive climate change legislation.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate campagin contributions, we must alert the US public as to the sources of the ads they are seeing. And we must do it now.
Lend your energy to getting the Disclose Act through the Senate during this session of Congress.
Posted 11.4.2010
Tell Hillary Clinton: Stop Doing Business with Blackwater
A private “security firm” prohibited from doing business in Iraq because of scandalous histories of violence, criminal conduct and fraud should not receive a 10 billion dollar contract for work in Afghanistan. We need more credibility with the Afghan people and more security for our soldiers. Tell Clinton to stop doing business with Blackwater.
Posted 11.7.2010
Support Bread for the World’s Campaign to End Hunger
There are many ways you can support the work of this exemplary organization, from signing a pledge that automatically causes a dollar to be contributed to the cause, to learning how inappropriate subsidies and development exaggerate hunger on a global level.
Posted 11. 21.2010
Tell FDA to require labeling of genetically engineered salmon
Consumers deserve to be able to make a choice on this one for the sake of their health and that of their families, not to mention, the health of ocean ecosystems in the potentially disastrous interbreeding of gmo salmon with wild salmon that is bound to happen.
The genetic integrity of wild salmon also deserves protection on cultural grounds. It is sacred to many of the Pacific Northwest’s indigenous peoples who have had an essential cultural relationship with salmon for thousands of years.
Posted 11.28.2010
Support the International Violence Against Women Act
Statistics cited on the THRIVE website indicate that one out of every three women globally will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise violently abused in her lifetime. As the Pulitzer Prize winning authors ofHalf the Sky document, millions of women worldwide lose not only their freedom but their lives simply because they are women. Passage of this law would extend standards in the current US law against domestic violence to the international arena by making US aid contingent on upholding them.
Posted 12.5.2010
Join the Millions against Monsanto Campaign with a boycott of Kellogg’s
Even as the data concerning the adverse health and environmental potentials of gmo products continues to mount, Monsanto continues to use strongarm tactics against small farmers who do not use its seed. This boycott is one part of the Millions against Monsanto campaign. Tell Kellogg’s PR person, Christina Calleras, how you feel about her claim that the safety of gmo foods can be derived from the fact that they have “become common in the open market”– since a market in which products are not labeled so that consumers know what they are buying can hardly be called “open.”
Posted 12.18.2010
Tell TIAA-CREF: divest funds that support the Israeli Occupation
Support this campaign on the part of Jewish Voters for Peace who see “two peoples, a common future” among Palestinians and Israelis through justice in the ancient Holy Land. Join over 19,500 people of conscience who have already signed this petition to ask TIAA-CREF to stop investing in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
See the category “Palestine” here for posts relating my personal experience teaching under the Israeli occupation.
Posted 12.16.2010
