A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.
A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.
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The victory is a result of the organization of the Collective of Communities Impacted by Agribusiness, created by rural communities in the Cerrado region of Piauí to resist land grabbing and the advance of agribusiness monocultures.
Three Saturday protests demand TIAA divest from fossil fuels, land grabs
New York City TIAA has an image of social responsibility, but they are investing in many companies that are at the root cause of climate change. We demand this stop, said Molly Ornati, a Brooklyn resident and one of the organizers of a rally at TIAA s Upper West Side branch office at 108th and Broadway on Saturday morning, April 17th. The protest, one of 3 organized by the TIAA Divest from Climate Destruction campaign Saturday, confronted the $1.3T investment giant with three primary demands on Saturday: divest from all fossil fuels, defund Line 3 (a tar sands pipeline being built across Anishinaabe land in Minnesota), and stop land grabs, especially in Brazil, which lead to human rights abuses and deforestation.