Posted on 01/31/2020 6:00:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dozens of young people staged a dramatic march from the Capitol to the headquarters of California’s teacher pension fund on Thursday, imploring CalSTRS to withdraw its investments from oil and gas companies.
The children, some drenched in mock oil, participated in a “die-in” at CalSTRS headquarters in West Sacramento, where they said their generation would suffer from the effects of climate change.
“We’re the ones that are vulnerable,” Sophia Jacobs, 12, of Berkeley said.
Their protest marked the latest effort by environmental advocacy groups to press California’s public pension funds to divest from fossil fuel industries.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System with a $250 billion portfolio and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with $400 billion in assets generally oppose divesting from legal industries, and each has an environmental sustainability strategy that acknowledges the risks of climate change.
Nonetheless, each fund is facing pressure to do more.
The students outside CalSTRS want the fund to move quickly. They mostly came from Sacramento and the Bay area, with support from a variety of environmental advocacy groups such as Sunrise Movement and Youth vs Apocalypse.
They carried a parade float shaped like an oil tanker down Capitol Mall. Others hoisted a giant skeleton puppet.
Among those attending Thursday’s rally were 14-year-old Elliot Ingle of Berkeley and 12-year-old Amira Lezin of Oakland.
“We really need to be taking action now,” Lezin said.
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Kids are going to have a rough life. Years and years of analysis and psychotropic drugs.
Idiot parents.
You AND bagster scare me. First I told bagster just he scared me :)
That’s some hardcore stuff.
They should be forced to divest from all stocks except those based on pixey dust and unicorn farts.
When that oil and coal stops feuling their ACs, cellphone charges, etc., these eco climate change mofos will change their toons, quickly......
These unhappy children are pawns of Leftist parents and teachers who have stollen their childhood years. They are probably scarred for life.
How dare you!
They should have used Castor Oil and drank it. Maybe it would clean they out enough so they could actually think.
They should go farther and abort themselves if they are so concerned.
Oh, they didn't?
Mom, you're running low on gas. There's a Shell station right over there.
Sure, castor oil, mineral oil, anything like that. Even olive oil would work.
A spinach salad with a cup of olive oil and they could bend over and paint a barn green. Which would fit with their green new deal.
Wonder how these protestors got to DC.
These people are insane..............................
They don’t mind using stuff made from oil and gas, like cellphones, clothing, shoes and fertilizers. How did they get to the place? On horseback?.........................
... or cellphones, TV’s, Video games.....................
A whole segment of our society has become thoroughly unhinged.
Based on the pics, there must have been over 50 kids there. Wow! But how did they get from Berkeley to Sacramento? Did they ride their bikes? Walk? Don’t tell me they rode in vehicles powered by OIL. Do they eat food produced with far machinery, or transported with power from burning OIL?
Do these kids realize that almost all of the props they are using to protest oil is made from...OIL!!! The rope, plastic sheet on their “ship”, plastic sheet on the table, plastic bottles on the table, clothing, etc. And I doubt they walked to the protest.
“...some drenched in mock oil...”
Impossible Burger Oil?
Demonstrating why we do not extend the franchise to children.
these kids need to start walking to school instead of riding a bus...
btw, good song bagster...
Drive by their protest with in a Hemi ‘Cuda...
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