Californians for Safety and Justice had developed a statewide network of crime survivors that was calling for legislative reforms to divest money from prisons and funnel it into mental health programs, drug treatment, and victims' services.
The international movement to boycott Israel over its treatment of Palestinians has received backing from one of the largest Protestant churches in the US, as two other major denominations prepare to vote on whether or not to divest money from the Jewish state.
With little choice but to follow the World Bank's agenda, Rawlings divested money-losing state companies, raised prices to cocoa producers and cut the civil service.
This is the latest – and most far-reaching – commitment in a divestment movement pushing governments, religious institutions, universities and other bodies to divest their money from coal, oil and gas companies.
Will you tell your pension fund you want to divest your money from fossil fuels?
He has also testified before the Maine Legislature as part of a successful campaign to divest state money from companies that do business in Sudan.
Encourage family, friends, your house of worship, school, etc. to divest their money from fossil fuels as well.
You see the job creation, you see the economic revolution, you see the power when you divest your money from white-owned, racist corporations, and invest it back into black-owned businesses.
"Senator Toomey needs immediately to divest the money he has invested in Yorktown University, and rescind his support for legislation that would help shady for-profit colleges," McGinty said last week. .
No, I'm talking about selling out by selling off — that is, making money by divesting myself of any worldly possessions that might go for a good price.
