Invest In Peace

Divestment, or even the threat of divestment is a nonviolent tool for exerting pressure on corporations. It must be on the table.What a crazy world this seems to be when I see what garners responses or not, from being “on the table.” The U.S. presidential candidates insist that they need to keep the threat of first-strike use of nuclear weapons on the table (even against poor people of non-nuclear states), and most people here just shrug. Whereas, when a confederation of churches wants divestment of stock-holdings (from companies that make money off of the brutalizing of others) to be on the table, they are told very loudly by many that they are out of line.
-Jim Haber
San Francisco, CA