April 1, 2025

"Rank and file teachers in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) are mobilizing to demand their pension fund–CalSTRS– divest from Israel’s genocide in Palestine, sell off investments in immigrant surveillance, and quit the war economy altogether. CalSTRS, the second largest public pension fund in the United States, invests over a billion dollars of its $352 billion portfolio in corporations that teachers say commit grave human rights violations not only in the US, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abducts protesters in broad daylight but in also in Palestine and throughout a Middle East under bombardment."