About the Campaign
Grassroots-led war divestment campaigns are springing up all over the world, from students organizing to divest university endowments, to municipalities and states coming together to divest public pension funds. Divestment means organizing to remove public and private assets from weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and war profiteers.
Public pension and retirement funds especially are often invested, directly and indirectly, in weapons companies. Teachers and other public servants whose interests lie with promoting human needs have their retirement security tied up with maintaining or enlarging the war industry. Every dollar currently invested in weapons and war is a dollar that could be better spent on job creation, education, housing, healthcare, food security, and so much more.
War profiteering is largely normalized today. We’re working to stigmatize the war machine. World BEYOND War assists divestment campaigns led by our chapters, affiliates, other coalitions, and individuals around the world.
Why divest?
- Withdraws investments from weapons companies and military contractors at the individual, institutional, and governmental levels.
- Gives us agency to act, no matter if Congress, Parliament, etc. is gridlocked.
- Connects the dots between issues, building opportunities for coalitional organizing and intersectional campaigns.
- Stigmatizes the war machine and exposes its pervasiveness in nearly every institution in our daily lives.
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