TIAA Accused of Land Grabs, Human Rights Violations, Environmental Destruction

By: February 17, 2017
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No one wants their retirement to be financed by companies involved in human rights violations and environmental destruction. But that is exactly what is happening to those of us with retirement funds invested in TIAA.

You can learn about the campaign to get TIAA to divest from companies involved in land grabs and deforestation throughout the world by reading the attached power point – and please sign one of the petitions. You can do so here: http://bit.ly/TIAALandGrabwebinar

– Nancy Holmstrom, Prof. Emerita Rutgers U, New Politics Editorial Board member and TIAA client.

 

Posted , by Dan La Botz
About Author

Nancy Holmstrom is Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University, and a member of the boards of the Left Forum and the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation. With Joanna Brenner, she most recently co-authored “Socialist Feminist Strategy Today” in the Socialist Register 2013.

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