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Teens drench themselves in fake oil in climate change protest at California pension fund
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo! News ^ | January 30, 2020 | by Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comedy; globalwarming; hilarity; hoax; humor; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kids are going to have a rough life. Years and years of analysis and psychotropic drugs.

Idiot parents.


21 posted on 01/31/2020 6:19:58 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: EEGator; bagster

You AND bagster scare me. First I told bagster just he scared me :)

That’s some hardcore stuff.


22 posted on 01/31/2020 6:21:27 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point do you at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should be forced to divest from all stocks except those based on pixey dust and unicorn farts.


23 posted on 01/31/2020 6:21:48 AM PST by Beagle8U (Did Eric Ciaramella kill Epstein? He didn't kill himself.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When that oil and coal stops feuling their ACs, cellphone charges, etc., these eco climate change mofos will change their toons, quickly......


24 posted on 01/31/2020 6:23:52 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These unhappy children are pawns of Leftist parents and teachers who have stollen their childhood years. They are probably scarred for life.


25 posted on 01/31/2020 6:24:03 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

How dare you!


26 posted on 01/31/2020 6:24:28 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Beagle8U

They should have used Castor Oil and drank it. Maybe it would clean they out enough so they could actually think.


27 posted on 01/31/2020 6:25:11 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should go farther and abort themselves if they are so concerned.


28 posted on 01/31/2020 6:26:07 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These children promised to no longer use electricity, natural gas, and vehicles that run on fossil fuels!

Oh, they didn't?

Mom, you're running low on gas. There's a Shell station right over there.

29 posted on 01/31/2020 6:29:45 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: oldasrocks

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.


30 posted on 01/31/2020 6:32:35 AM PST by Beagle8U (Did Eric Ciaramella kill Epstein? He didn't kill himself.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wonder how these protestors got to DC.


31 posted on 01/31/2020 6:35:10 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?.........................


32 posted on 01/31/2020 6:36:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Right Wing Assault

... or cellphones, TV’s, Video games.....................


33 posted on 01/31/2020 6:37:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Russ

A whole segment of our society has become thoroughly unhinged.


34 posted on 01/31/2020 6:39:45 AM PST by samtheman (Trump Campaign Ad (hopefully): Look at Virginia. Look at NY. What Democrats do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?


35 posted on 01/31/2020 6:42:10 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


36 posted on 01/31/2020 6:42:20 AM PST by eieio1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...some drenched in mock oil...”

Impossible Burger Oil?


37 posted on 01/31/2020 6:44:18 AM PST by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Demonstrating why we do not extend the franchise to children.


38 posted on 01/31/2020 6:47:49 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

these kids need to start walking to school instead of riding a bus...

btw, good song bagster...


39 posted on 01/31/2020 6:48:12 AM PST by heavy metal (truth trumps lies...)
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To: dp0622

Drive by their protest with in a Hemi ‘Cuda...


40 posted on 01/31/2020 6:49:38 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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