<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">See you there, and please share widely!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We are so excited to demonstrate outside pension fund TIAA-CREF</span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> tomorrow</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> amidst the </span><a href="https://wedivest.org/post/288/press-release-tiaa-cref-drops-sodastream#.UeQwrz53i6U" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">breaking news that they have divested from SodaStream</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. Will Veolia, which operates segregated buses in the West Bank, be next? Join us to keep up the divestment momentum for Palestinian rights!</span><br>
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<i><font color="#000000"><font size="4">Tuesday, July 16<sup>th</sup></font><span style="font-size:large">, Tell TIAA-CREF:</span></font></i></div></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<div align="center" style="font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif;font-size:19px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt"><font color="#000000">Divest from Israeli Occupation!</font></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif;font-size:19px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt"><font color="#000000">No more war profiteering!</font></span></b></div></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><div align="center"><i><font size="4" color="#000000">Meet at <span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span>12:15 PM</span></span></span> in <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Harvard</span> Square (the pit)</font></i></div>
<div align="center"><i><font size="4" color="#000000"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span>12:30</span></span></span> - March to TIAA-CREF</font></i></div>
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<font size="4" color="#000000">On Tuesday, July 16<sup>th</sup>, pension giant TIAA-CREF holds its annual meeting in Charlotte, NC, where shareholders will demand that the company <a href="http://wedivest.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">divest from Israeli occupation</a>. Join us in creatively protesting at TIAA-CREF offices across the country!</font></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:20pt"><font color="#000000">Tuesday, July 16<sup>th</sup></font></span></b></div></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19px;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif">
<font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Meet at <span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span>12:15 PM</span></span></span> in </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Harvard</span> Square (the pit)</span></b></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19px;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span>12:30</span></span></span> - March to TIAA-CREF</font></span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif;font-size:19px"><span style="font-size:18pt"><font color="#000000">RSVP on </font></span></b><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="5"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/406217836157900/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Facebook</a></b></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:19px;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif">TIAA-CREF</span><font face="garamond, serif"> has tried to silence us by <a href="http://wedivest.org/2013/06/cref-annual-meeting-announced-charlotte-nc-on-tues-july-16th/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">squelching</a> a shareholder divestment resolution to take teachers</font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif;font-size:large">’</span><font face="garamond, serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> retirement money out of <a href="http://wedivest.org/learn-more/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">companies</a> that violate Palestinian human rights by bulldozing homes, dropping bombs, and securing illegal settlements.</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"> But that won’t stop us from holding TIAA-CREF accountable to its claim to provide financial services “for the greater good.” </span></div>
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<font size="4" color="#000000"><i>There will also be a musical flash mob at this demonstration parodying Taylor Swift!</i><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><i> </i></font></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">For general questions please contact <a href="mailto:liza@jvp-boston.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">liza@jvp-boston.org</a>.</i></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Can't be there? Support the action on social media using <a href="https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2668-divest-from-israeli-occupation" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Thunderclap.</a></i></div>
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