Join TIAA-Divest! on April 1st 2022 for a “Don’t Be (Fossil) Fooled by TIAA” National Day of Action
Join TIAA-Divest! on April 1st 2022 for a “Don’t Be (Fossil) Fooled by TIAA” National Day of Action
TIAA-Divest! is joining with tens of thousands of TIAA participants across the country to demand that TIAA stop financing the climate crisis and put an end to deforestation-driving agribusiness investments. We’ll deliver our demands and over 23,000 petition signatures to TIAA Headquarters in midtown Manhattan in a key moment of escalation for our campaign!
How to Participate & Support:
- Join us at TIAA HQ in NYC (see details below)
- Attend an action near you (see below for list of actions)
- Organize your own action
- Amplify our demands online (Contact us for social media kit)
Join the flagship action at TIAA Headquarters in Manhattan
- What: We’ll deliver over 23,000 petition signatures to TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett.
- When: 4/1/2022 12pm ET
- Where: New York City at TIAA Headquarters, 730 Third Avenue NYC
- RSVP here
Join a solidarity action near you:
- 📍Washington, DC (April 8th)
- 📍Baltimore, MD (April 7th)
- 📍SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, NY (April 14th)
- 📍The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California
- 📍Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
- 📍University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison Wisconsin
- 📍University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA
Organize your own action
- Organize an action on your local campus or at your local TIAA office
- Email us! We’ll help you organize your action
Event Flyer
We’ll be handing out this flyer at our events. Print out a few copies to share with your colleagues.
From California to Montana, from Wisconsin to New York, please join us! Here’s our Sign up form
Co-sponsoring Organizations:
| TIAA Divest! | New Paltz Climate Action Coalition |
| Stop Land Grabs Coalition | Stand. Earth |
| ActionAid USA | Amazon Watch |
| Friends of the Earth U.S. | Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Brazil |
| National Family Farm Coalition | Family Farm Defenders |
| Climate Safe Pensions Network | Stop the Money Pipeline |
| Presbyterian Hunger Program (Presbyterian Church USA) | Grassroots International |
| Uprooted & Rising | CODEPINK |
Site Specific Event Details:
- Washington, DC (April 8th) – Meet at noon, exit of metro center 13th & G next to TIAA office. – Contact doug.hertzler@actionaid.org
- Baltimore, MD (April 8th) – Thursday April 7, 2:30 pm at TIAA offices, 1410 Clarkview Road Baltimore – Contact doug.hertzler@actionaid.org
- New Paltz, NY (April 14th) – 12 noon – 1 PM In front of Jacobson Faculty Tower, on SUNY New Paltz Campus. contact Paris Martin pmartin3377@gmail.com
- Main Action, Manhattan: TIAA Headquarters, 730 Third Ave, 12:00 EDT
- The Claremont Colleges: South Entrance of Honnold Library, 12:30 PDT Contact dan_segal@pitzer.edu
- Cornell University/Ithaca NY: Ho Plaza @ 10:00 AM EDT Contact nrs95@cornell.edu
- Madison, WI: 3:00 pm UW-Madison – meetup at the top of Bascom Hill by the Abe Lincoln Statue! Petition delivery to UW-Chancellor, Rebecca Blank Contact familyfarmdefenders@yahoo.com. Facebook event here.
- Pittsburgh, PA – 4200 5th Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh @ 12:00 PM Contact bwb131252@gmail.com
