<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Gerry, that gives me an idea: for our local activism on climate disruption we've committed ourselves to (along with universal / single payer health care) we could use pushing local organizations such as governments to divest!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Green is GO!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Drew<br></span></div><div> </div><div>~*~*~*~<br>Jill Stein for President -- A Green New Deal for America<br>Campaign website: http://www.jillstein.org/<br>Climate Voter Power Pledge: http://www.jillstein.org/dc_climate_protests<br> First TV Ad http://tinyurl.com/JillStein1stAd<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gerry Gras <gerrygras@earthlink.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GPSCC-chat] "Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free"<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>FYI,<br><br>an article by Naomi Klein about how some environmental<br>organizations need to divest from fossil fuels.<br><br>"Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free"<br><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/02-6" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/02-6</a><br><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/174143/time-big-green-go-fossil-free" target="_blank">http://www.thenation.com/article/174143/time-big-green-go-fossil-free</a><br><br>Some points:<br>- the divestment movement is "on a serious roll",<br> 305 campuses, >100 cities and states,<br> Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Britain<br>- "serious pent-up demand"<br><br>- environmental orgs left out on the assumption that<br>
[they don't have money invested in fossil fuels]<br>- turns out the assumption is false in some cases<br>- some orgs that do NOT have endowments, don't invest<br> in stock market:<br> Greenpeace, 350.org, Friends of the Earth, Rainforest<br> Action Network<br>- many green orgs DO have sizable investments, and<br> probably have some money in fossil fuels<br><br>Gerry<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org" href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>