{"id":15790,"date":"2011-07-18T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:57:58","slug":"archbishop-desmond-tutu-tiaa-cref-should-hear-us-divest-from-israeli-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15790","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Desmond Tutu: TIAA-CREF should hear us, divest from Israeli apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday, Jul. 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>From Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As shareholders with the retirement giant TIAA-CREF head to Charlotte this week for their national meeting, there is one issue they will find conspicuously absent from the agenda: divestment from the Israeli Occupation. Despite pleas from shareholders, including medical professionals, students and academics from universities across the United States, the pension fund refused to allow a vote on a resolution that would have compelled TIAA-CREF to consider divestment from companies such as Caterpillar or Elbit. These are companies that profit substantially from the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2011\/07\/17\/2459590\/tiaa-cref-should-hear-us-divest.html#ixzz1STq39Odr\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;TIAA-CREF should hear us, divest from Israeli apartheid&#8221; by Archbishop Desmond Tutu<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, Jul. 17, 2011 From Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009: As shareholders with the retirement giant TIAA-CREF head to Charlotte this week for their national meeting, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-46G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}