We're close to getting one of the world's largest public pension plans to divest from the private prison companies arresting migrants on Trump's border.
SumOfUs members helped blow the story that Canada’s pension plan has quietly increased upped investment in private prison corporations by 1300% in the last year wide open. In a country known across the world for its commitment to human rights, this is intolerable -- and the pension execs know it.
Internal sources say we may be on the cusp of forcing the CPP to divest. We have the perfect way to seal the deal -- but we need your help to pull it off.
The CPP hosts public meetings only once every 2 years, and the meetings start next week. The biggest meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada’s largest city -- and I’ve just got off the phone with a company willing to fly a plane over the meeting in Toronto letting the CEO know that the world is watching. But we can’t do it without your help.
We need to raise $6,000 to make this plan fly.
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The Guardian. 12 October 2018.
The Guardian. 21 October 2018.