[Peace-discuss] Fwd: CAT shareholders meet: Speak out!

[Robert Naiman]

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From: Sydney Levy, Jewish Voice for Peace <info at jewishvoiceforpeace.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Subject: CAT shareholders meet: Speak out!
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


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*Email Caterpillar's Board of Directors to say, "Stop selling bulldozers for
Israel's demolition of Palestinian
homes!"*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4MVCwq7w%2F3IeZ3otPpGGWuvXLYSXIo2B>

  * *  Dear Robert,
  *
*The United Nations is reporting a two-fold increase in the rate of
Palestinian home demolitions by the Israeli authorities this year. (1) These
demolitions have razed entire villages again and again. The Bedouin village
of Al-Arakib in the Negev has already been destroyed by Caterpillar
bulldozers 21 times. I visited the razed village and saw myself the
Caterpillar destruction machines parked in a fenced off area, ready to
demolish the village once more.

If you are troubled by this,
*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b3Z9JsQr33WPFKVLw9a8zdTcRjg%2Byczc>
**please write to Caterpillar's Board of Directors today and ask them why
they are allowing their products to be used in this
way.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zunpUQapUIuTkVL85NDNK9TcRjg%2Byczc>
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On Wednesday at 1.30 pm Central Time, the Caterpillar Board of Directors
will hold the company's annual shareholder meeting, and they've asked to
receive questions in advance of that meeting. *Please ask them about the use
of their bulldozers by the Israeli
Army.*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7ZrujKQQx0F72Sd7bjLiNdTcRjg%2Byczc>

Since 2004, Jewish Voice for Peace has been attending the Caterpillar
shareholder meetings in the Chicago area to hold the company accountable for
their bulldozers being used to demolish Palestinian homes. This year
Caterpillar
hopes to draw less attention to its human rights record. They've moved the
shareholder meeting to a less accessible location-Little Rock, AK.   But you
don't have to go to Little Rock to make your voice heard. You can ask your
question and bring your concern online today. At the meeting, Caterpillar
plans on alternating online questions with questions from the floor, *so
please send your question to Caterpillar
today.*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gXUsenOYRtPtD%2FfUptFBX9TcRjg%2Byczc>We
want to make sure that concerns about Palestinian human rights become
the
number one issue Caterpillar has to deal with at the meeting.

*Whether or not you own Caterpillar stock, click here to write Caterpillar
and tell them of your
concerns*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IzrCWoB%2FyNfX%2BLJQEyxNmNTcRjg%2Byczc>that
a prominent U.S. company, one that even is listed in some "socially
responsible" investment funds, is supplying the equipment to destroy
Palestinian homes, punishing whole families and communities, and making a
just peace even more difficult to achieve. Stop enabling Israel's human
rights abuses! Permanently halting all sales to Israel until a just peace is
reached is the right thing to do. And with the rise of the global Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions Movement, it's good business sense too.

Thanks!

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Sydney Levy,
Jewish Voice for Peace

PS. There's another way to pressure Caterpillar: by asking one of the
largest pension funds in the US to divest from it. If you have not yet
signed our petition to retirement giant TIAA-CREF, go here and sign: *
wedivest.org*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lp%2Bqb0c3dWMrhOp9IAdmCdTcRjg%2Byczc>

(1) UNRWA, March 21, 2011:  *Worrying increase in home
demolitions*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NdfCJfWFaA%2BdyrnLSd76ENTcRjg%2Byczc>

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Robert Naiman
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