SB-1173 – INDIVISIBLE VENTURA

CalPERS and CalSTRS have an estimated $9 BILLION invested in fossil fuel production. For eight years, their members have called for their pensions to divest. The Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 1173) would require CalPERS and CalSTRS to divest from fossil fuels by July 2027.

SB 1173 will be heard TODAY, MONDAY, 4/4, in the Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee.

We need lots of supporters to call in with quick public comments like this one:

Pick your script!

“I’m [NAME] and I’m calling in from [WHERE YOU LIVE] to say that I strongly support SB 1173.”
“My name is [NAME]. I’m with [ORGANIZATION] and we strongly support SB 1173.”
“I’m [NAME], I’m a CalPERS/STRS member with [ORGANIZATION], and we strongly support SB 1173.”

HOW TO CALL IN ON SB-1173

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Quote: Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist

Action #1 – FEDERAL: Tell Biden and your federal legislators to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY – we need to untangle ourselves from a fossil fuel addiction that keeps us hostage to dictators and greedy, unscrupulous corporations.
Action #2 – LOCAL: Help Ventura County residents ensure safe drinking water for all with “YES on A&B!”
ACTION #3 – STATE: DIVEST billions of fossil fuel investment from CalPERS and CalSTRS with SB-1173.

Gaslighted – our grim addiction to an amoral industry.

They are an expensive habit – Governments pay fossil fuel companies billions of dollars in subsidies a year – almost $5 TRILLION from 2010-2020, money that could have been invested in renewable energy resources.
They take with both hands – In the US, “dozens of special tax loopholes save the oil and gas industry BILLIONS every year on the backs of taxpayers while putting …communities and nature at risk from pollution and climate change,” with some paying NO FEDERAL TAXES AT ALL. Meanwhile, “they use our roads and our electrical grid and our police protection locally and our military protection globally ($1Tn a year for US to keep that up to protect Exxon’s interests overseas) We educate their employees and we fund their retirement….”