Divestment from banks that fund fossil fuel projects has long been an effective way to bring attention to the financial institutions involved in such projects. https://jeffkisling.com/?s=divest

I’ve (@ran activist @jakislin) been involved in numerous divestment campaigns.

As one example, in 2015 I was involved with a divestment campaign by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to stop fossil fuel funding by Morgan Stanley. https://jeffkisling.com/2015/11/30/morgan-stanley-stops-financing-coal/

As a result, Morgan Stanley shareholders decided to cut coal financing.

Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Cut Coal Financing, Join Growing Movement by Banks in U.S. and Europe

Following is a toolkit from the Wet’suwet’en peoples who are asking us to pressure the RBC and other financial institutions to withdraw funds from the Coastal GasLink pipeline project.

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   Nancy Bailey: An Overview of the War Against the Teaching Profession

   Nancy Bailey has assembled a devastating review of a three-decades long effort to destroy the teaching profession and replace it with models derived from the corporate sector. She begins:

   The pandemic has been rough on teachers, but there has for years been an organized effort to end a professional teaching workforce by politicians and big businesses.

   In 1992, The Nation’s cover story by Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro described the meeting of President H. W. Bush and a roomful of Fortune 500 CEOs who planned to launch a bold new industrial venture to save the nation’s schoolchildren.

   The report titled, “A small circle of friends: Bush’s new American schools. (New American Schools Development Corp.),” also called NASDC, didn’t discuss saving public schools or teachers. They viewed schools as failed experiments, an idea promoted by the Reagan…