Protest GMPF Management Board Meeting, 9am – 11am on 10th December at Guardsman Tony Downes House, Manchester Road, Droylesden M43 6SF.

Bring placards and flags.Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) have their quarterly Management Panel and Advisory Panel meeting on 10th December 2021 at 10.00 am. Each Council in Greater Manchester has a representative on the board.

GMPF is the pension fund for all Greater Manchester local government employees. They pay into it, and the local council pays into it. So if you work for the council, or pay council tax, your money is going in – so you should have a say about how it is invested.

Michael Lynk, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human rights in the Palestinian Territories, wrote to the chairs of all the Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) and their national body LGPS Advisory Board urging them to divest. Read his letter here:

Letter from UN to Local Government Pensions Schemes

Show your support by signing our petition to ask all Northern LGPS (Manchester, Merseyside and Yorkshire LGPS) to divest from the companies listed on the UN list:

Sign The Petition

Join our protest to urge GMPF to divest from companies complicit in Israeli Apartheid.

#LGPSDivest #GMPFDivest #NorthernLGPSDivest

TO PREVENT YOUR COUNCIL TAX SUPPORTING ISRAELI APARTHEID

Research has identified that Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) funds hold £4.4 billion in companies complicit with Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights . This includes companies active in, or with, Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise on stolen Palestinian land, as well as companies supplying weapons, components, and military technology used in unlawful violence against Palestinians.

Across the UK, pension scheme members and their representative trade unions, supported by PSC, are calling on the Local Government Pension Scheme to remove investments from companies complicit. This is not just an issue for people receiving a local government pension or paying into a local government pensions scheme but also the wider public as this is public money.

To focus on pensions in the north of England a northern group has been established to lobby pension fund trustees of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, Merseyside Pension Fund, West Yorkshire Pension Fund to  follow through on their ethical commitments by divesting from all companies that operate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. As part of this, a petition to pension fund trustees has been launched.

SIGN THE PETITION TO PENSION FUNDS TRUSTEES

For more information goto the national LGPS campaign that can be found here

LGPS DIVEST CAMPAIGN

PSC are asking the general public (not just scheme members) to lobby their local councils, which can be done here

LOBBY YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLOR

PSC are asking scheme members to lobby the chair of their scheme

LETTER FOR SCHEME MEMBERS

Look out for more actions coming up – PSC have called for a day of action on Local Govt Pension Schemes Divestment on 4th December.

Live and Online

A stand-up comedy fundraiser for Palestine Solidarity Campaign  

Tuesday 9 November 2021  

Show start: 7.30pm

Ticketing info

Featuring:  

Jen Brister  – Jenan Younis – Fatiha El-Ghorri  – Daphna Baram  – Isabelle Farah

PSC are proud to announce our next comedy fundraising event, taking place live in an actual venue as well as streamed live online to your home!  

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Saturday 6th November

Assemble & March 12 pm St Peters Square

Rally  3pm St Peter Square

The struggles for environmental, social, racial, economic and political justice are intertwined. Like many indigenous people around the world, Palestinians are struggling against the impact of climate change and environmental destruction.   Please join the day of action and global solidarity.

POSSIBLY THE OLDEST GREEN-WASHING ORGANISATION IN THE WORLD

Israel often carries out its actions against the Palestinian under the auspices of environmentalism.  The Jewish National Fund (JNF, also known by its Hebrew name Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, KKL) is an Israeli para-statal company established in Britain in 1901  for the sole purpose of the colonisation of Palestine by obtaining Palestinian land and, as ‘custodian for the Jewish people’, making it available solely for Jewish settlers.

To its shame the United Nations has been granted the JNFstatus observer to the Conferences of Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) , as the main purpose of the JNF is still the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population. It accompanies the Israeli government to COP26.

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