Original Blog Entry: Push for Counter-Terror Divestment

konane — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:53:21 GMT

Might be helpful to find out where any investment $$$ are being placed to help starve terror sponsoring states.

In the State of Georgia two retirement funds are on the list of investing in companies who do business with terror sponsoring states.

Via down loadable PDF. http://divestterror.org/index.html

The Top 100 Public Pension Systems

"Georgia

Teachers Retirement System of Georgia 35

Georgia Employees Retirement System 36

"Conservatives Push for Counter-Terror Divestment
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
January 02, 2007

"(CNSNews.com) - The United Nations Security Council has voted to impose sanctions on Iranian nuclear and missile programs, but some American conservatives argue that U.S. state governments can have a greater impact on Tehran's nuclear activities by pulling money out of companies that do business with the terror-sponsoring nation.

"Security Council sanctions on Iran are virtually useless, they're so watered down," Christopher Holton told Cybercast News Service on Friday.

"Iran's revenue stream from various economic activities, especially oil and gas, enables it to have those programs and there's been nothing done to put any pressure on Iran to ... in terms of economic sanctions, which is really what needs to be done."

Holton is the Director of DivestTerror.org, a project of the conservative Center for Security Policy that urges U.S. public pension systems to divest from companies that do business in terrorist-sponsoring nations.

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