Join us outside Tameside Council meeting as we present thousands of letters signed by concerned Greater Manchester residents.
Tuesday 4th March from 4pm – 6pm
Dukinfield Town Hall, King St, SK16 4LA
Tameside Council is the ‘administering authority’ for GMPF. They manage the fund on behalf of all 10 GM authorities plus several hundred small employers in education and housing, for example, who pay into the fund. In Manchester 25% of your council tax goes into the Pension Fund. In Tameside it’s 29%. Other boroughs vary. The fund has, according to the 2023 accounts, the most recent available, over £240 million invested in the arms trade, much of it in the F35 consortium, £22 million invested in companies on the UN list of those involved in promoting and funding illegal settlements in the West Bank, and over £1.1 billion in fossil fuels. In addition there are investments in companies like Siemens, Caterpillar and Amazon which are, for good reason, on the BDS list.
GM pensioners, and council tax payers, are entitled to be sure that their money is not
being invested in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and climate chaos.
You can still sign the open letter to Andy Burnham, Mayor of GM and Elizabeth Wills, Chair of the Fund. Paper letters will be available at the demo on Saturday 1st March. The link to the (identical0 online letter is here –
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/gmpf-divest-now
Please share widely!
Getting to Dukinfield Town Hall:
Tram to Ashton; 330 bus towards Stockport goes past the Town Hall and runs every 12 minutes.
Look out on social media for offers of car sharing.
