On July
1, 2015 Israel bonds purchased by the State of Minnesota with public retirement funds will
mature. This unrestricted money is used by the government of Israel for illegal settlements,
electronic surveillance, apartheid separation barriers and offensive military
hardware. By signing this petition you are telling Minnesota's State Board of Investments that
you want to end the state's complicity in these violations of Palestinian human
rights.
We also need folks to circulate the petition among their friends and co-workers. Email twinportsbbc@yahoo.com to get a petition sent to you. Filled out forms should be mailed to me at: Bob Kosuth, 1224 E. 11th Street, Duluth, MN 55805. We can gather petition
signatures until next spring (see below).
You can also send a message to SBI members online. The link below should
get you directly to the site for sending your message. If you have any
problems you can just go to the MN
BBC website http://mn.breakthebonds.org/ and
then on the home page there will be a link "Three Ways to Take Action to Demand Justice
for Gaza." Click it and
scroll down and click on #2 to email a message about Israel bonds to SBI constitutional
office holders. Just fill in your zip code and edit the message
if you like and send.
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/641/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16406
Please feel
free to forward this message widely. According to my best information, a
decision about bond renewal is likely to be made at the June 2015 meeting,
but we want to get as many Minnesotans as possible to sign the petition and/or
communicate with the SBI to build momentum until then.
Thank you,
Bob Kosuth
Twin Ports
Break the Bonds
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