Thrivent Financial: Divest from Weapon Manufacturers
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As a Christian investment firm, Thrivent Financial has the opportunity to provide leadership and promote peace. In 1995, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted a social statement on peace, which states:
We also affirm that governments should vigorously pursue less coercive measures over more coercive ones: consent over compulsion, nonviolence over violence, diplomacy over military engagement, and deterrence over war.
I am reaching out to you as a shareholder of BlackRock, an asset manager which invests billions of dollars in the world's largest weapons' manufacturers, and because of your own investments in weapons’ manufacturers.
Thrivent Financial invests in weapon manufacturers Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon
In 2016, the U.S. dedicated $700 billion of our tax dollars to the Pentagon, which amounts to 64% of federal discretionary spending- half of which goes directly to weapons’ manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics.
The misconduct by weapons’ companies ranges from groundwater contamination to labor violations, and includes over-inflated pricing and overbilling the federal government. On top of making products which spread death and destruction around the world, these companies are flagrantly engaging in bad business practices while misusing limited federal resources.
The military-industrial complex dominates U.S. spending and spreads death and destruction at home and abroad. When you advise your clients to invest in weapons of war, it means that you are advising them to make a killing on killing.
The military-industrial complex relies upon its integration in the financial system to promote its bottom line over the necessity of peace.
Since 1995, Lockheed Martin has 85 instances of misconduct and $767.3 million in penalties; Boeing has 68 instances of misconduct and $1.5 billion in penalties; General Dynamics has 22 instances of misconduct and $280.3 million in penalties; Raytheon has 27 instances of misconduct and $489.9 million in penalties; and Northrop Grumman has 44 instances of misconduct and $888 million in penalties.
Investing in weapons’ manufacturers undermines peace and diplomacy, and instead prioritizes making a killing on killing. I strongly urge you to reconsider your investments in war and in weapon companies.
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Thrivent Financial: Divest from Weapon Manufacturers
Personalize an email to Teresa Rassmussen, the CEO of Thrivent. Here’s how to do it: Fill out the form to the right. Write your own subject line. Write your own email.
****Note: the online form works best on Chrome or Safari web browsers. If you have any difficulties with the form, email nancymancias@codepink.org
Below are some talking points to get you started on composing an email:
As a Christian investment firm, Thrivent Financial has the opportunity to provide leadership and promote peace. In 1995, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted a social statement on peace, which states:
We also affirm that governments should vigorously pursue less coercive measures over more coercive ones: consent over compulsion, nonviolence over violence, diplomacy over military engagement, and deterrence over war.
I am reaching out to you as a shareholder of BlackRock, an asset manager which invests billions of dollars in the world's largest weapons' manufacturers, and because of your own investments in weapons’ manufacturers.
Thrivent Financial invests in weapon manufacturers Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon
In 2016, the U.S. dedicated $700 billion of our tax dollars to the Pentagon, which amounts to 64% of federal discretionary spending- half of which goes directly to weapons’ manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics.
The misconduct by weapons’ companies ranges from groundwater contamination to labor violations, and includes over-inflated pricing and overbilling the federal government. On top of making products which spread death and destruction around the world, these companies are flagrantly engaging in bad business practices while misusing limited federal resources.
The military-industrial complex dominates U.S. spending and spreads death and destruction at home and abroad. When you advise your clients to invest in weapons of war, it means that you are advising them to make a killing on killing.
The military-industrial complex relies upon its integration in the financial system to promote its bottom line over the necessity of peace.
Since 1995, Lockheed Martin has 85 instances of misconduct and $767.3 million in penalties; Boeing has 68 instances of misconduct and $1.5 billion in penalties; General Dynamics has 22 instances of misconduct and $280.3 million in penalties; Raytheon has 27 instances of misconduct and $489.9 million in penalties; and Northrop Grumman has 44 instances of misconduct and $888 million in penalties.
Investing in weapons’ manufacturers undermines peace and diplomacy, and instead prioritizes making a killing on killing. I strongly urge you to reconsider your investments in war and in weapon companies.
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