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THE PEOPLE’S ARMS EMBARGO IS GROWING… FIND A CAMPAIGN NEAR YOU!

DMV

  • The Virginia Retirement System (VRS) invests hundreds of millions of dollars of its total $1.4 billion directly in weapons and shipping companies that have been responsible for the genocide in Gaza, including Maersk, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and others.

    Virginians and people everywhere deserve to have their hard-earned money actually benefit themselves and the world. Join us as we demand VRS: No Pensions for Genocide!

    1. Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.

    2. Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any company that manufactures or ships weapons or weapons components.

Britain

  • Ealing Council is funding genocide. Over £112 million of public money is invested in arms and logistics firms, like Maersk, Elbit and Leonardo, complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians. While Gaza burns, Ealing Council stays silent, choosing profits over people, complicity over conscience. Our demands are simple: Ealing Council must divest its pension fund from Maersk and all companies complicit in enabling the genocide on Gaza.

    1. Ealing Council must divest its pension fund from Maersk & all companies complicit in the genocide on Gaza

Canada

  • For nearly two years, the Canadian government has misled the public about its role in supplying weapons to Israel. In 2024, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly claimed that Canada had stopped all arms transfers to Gaza. But the facts say otherwise. From weapons manufactured in our cities, to ports moving military cargo, to government agencies approving export licenses—Canada is directly supporting Israel’s war machine. We demand the Canadian government impose a full, immediate arms embargo on Israel.

  • The Canadian government must immediately:

    1. Block all weapons exports to Israel through the U.S.

    2. Cancel all existing permits for direct weapons exports from Canada to Israel

    3. Cancel contracts and planned purchases of weapons from Israel

BOSTON

  • In 2021, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics signed an agreement to expand Maersk’s AI driven logistics solutions, expanding Maersk’s logistical capabilities. These technologies enable Maersk to automate operations, denigrate worker power, and bolster its role in war logistics. We will not accept automation for genocide! We demand MIT CTL sever its ties with Maersk!

    1. MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics must sever its ties with Maersk

BAY AREA

  • Oakland plays a hidden and central role in transporting military cargo to the Israeli military. Shipments have been sent from Oakland to Israel multiple times per week, almost every single week this year. The fact that shipments of F-35 fighter jet components are flowing through the Oakland airport to the Israeli military has been concealed from the people of Oakland, our workers, our city officials, our families, and our educators. Together, we are launching a broad based coalition to demand an end to Oakland’s participation in genocide.

    1. Oakland enact an arms embargo on Israel

    2. Stop any shipments of military weapons or cargo from ports of Oakland to Israel

Options for Local Organizing

Against Maersk

1. DIVESTMENT

1. City Council: Organize to get your city council to vote to divest municipal funds (such as pension funds or other city-managed investments) from Maersk on the basis of its complicity in genocide and human rights violations. If an ethical investment policy is passed, you can then reference the policy to divest from specific complicit companies. If a broad policy fails to pass or is not pursued for other reasons, the city can still target specific companies or sectors for divestment.

2. Institution-Level Divestment: Organize to get investment funds managed by universities, retirement systems, religious institutions, etc. to divest from Maersk. 

3. Human Rights Procurement and Investment Policy: If you would like your city council or union to divest from or end contracts with companies that profit from Zionist violence, and you know there are multiple companies on your list including Maersk, you could take the initial step it to mobilize support for a policy that would prevent investments and procurement contracts with companies that are complicit in human rights violations anywhere.

2. CUT THE CONTRACTS

Organize a campaign to call for terminating contracts with Maersk, at a university or institutional level, including research collaborations. You can demand the cancellation of joint projects, grants, and supplier contracts. This can involve organizing a pledge to get students/community members to refuse to participate in partnerships, organizing for resolutions or petitions.

3. CULTURAL BOYCOTT

Cultural boycotts can involve pressuring arts institutions to reject grants from Maersk, or pressuring arts events or festivals to drop Maersk as a corporate sponsor. 

4. TRADE UNIONS

If you’re in a trade union, consider passing a resolution that calls for an arms embargo. Check out this example from a trade union in Britain!