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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
Senior Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA, Land Rights, Food Sov, Impact of Big Ag on Climate & Rt2Food. Views here ≠ ActionAid's. @Doug_Hertzler@mastodon.world
Mount Rainier, MDactionaidusa.org/about/experts/…Joined October 2010
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TIAA-Divest!
@TIAADivest
Seems
@TIAA
is not ashamed of being the 4th largest holder of coal bonds in the world. They even invest in the most destructive, fraudulent coal expansionist, #AdaniGroup. TIAA: Stop mumbling "be the change" (embarrassing) and dump your toxic bonds now! #TIAAFails
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Toxic Bonds
@toxic_bonds
NEW: Report reveals that 7️⃣ UN-Convened Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance members hold more bonds issued by fossil fuel companies in the #ToxicBondsDirty30 list than @Vanguard_Group, famous climate-heel dragger! 👉 Read the report here: climate-votes.org/nzaoa2022/ #NZAOA
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
In the United States, we need a #FarmBill that guarantees the human right to food, that works toward access to land for dispossessed and marginalized communities, and fair prices for local food producers. #OurFutureIsPublic.
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ActionAid USA
@ActionAidUSA
Our world faces multiple crises & we need an urgent & collective response to address the impacts & ensure that people can live dignified lives out of private control. Learn how the #SantiagoDeclaration envisions a public future👉 bit.ly/3H5UTZL #OurFutureIsPublic
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
We need public and democratic solutions to the multiple crisis we face. #OurFutureIsPublic
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ActionAid USA
@ActionAidUSA
Our world faces multiple crises & we need an urgent & collective response to address the impacts & ensure that people can live dignified lives out of private control. Learn how the #SantiagoDeclaration envisions a public future👉 bit.ly/3H5UTZL #OurFutureIsPublic
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
Yes, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Food speaks truth again. When is the US government going to take this most basic human right seriously?
@SecVilsack
@ABlinken
@USUNRomeAmb
@PowerUSAID
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Marie Cosquer
@CosquerRic
"We are still in a #FoodCrisis. The CFS is the place to build an international response to it. The Right to Food is in every CFS policy instrument" @MichaelFakhri being once again the best @UN_CFS and @CSM4CFS advocate at #GFFA23 #CFSResponse #FoodSystems4People
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Gabriela Bucher
@Gabucher
Our
@Oxfam
report out now. The richest 1% grabbed nearly 2/3 of all new wealth since 2020. That’s almost twice as much money as the rest of the world put together. We have to get back to basics. A strategic solution is taxing the super-rich. #wef23
edition.cnn.com
The top 1% captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world over last two years |...
The world's wealthiest residents have been getting far richer, far faster than everyone else over the past two years.
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ActionAid USA
@ActionAidUSA
In the U.S., financial actors such as
@TIAA
have become the largest landholders, expanding & bringing other money managers into this new wave of land-based colonialism. Our own
@doug_hertzler
, spotlights the covered-up reality of #landgrabs👇
actionaidusa.org
New myths and new colonial land grabs - ActionAid USA
Many of us are still learning how to celebrate the harvest holiday of Thanksgiving with a new understanding of our history that embraces our collective
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
Maybe Metro shouldn't have been posting that
@MetroBusInfo
about which bus
@elonmusk
was riding on :-)
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Metro
@wmata
Currently our @metrobusinfo 🚌 account is suspended. We’re working to get this restored for our bus customers. Sorry for the inconvenience. In the meantime, check wmata.com/alerts for Metrobus status, at-stop bus displays if available, or sign up for Metroalerts #wmata
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AndeanInfoNet
@AndeanInfoNet
Why does the
@Reuters
S. American bureau chief find the burning of gov't institutions by a nazi-saluting para-state group in Sta Cruz, #Bolivia "beautiful?" Good pics, but indigenous & low-income cruceños, face life-threatening attacks. STOP ROMANTICIZING RIGHTWING VIOLENCE!
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Adam Ramsay Jourdan
@ARJourdan
There's a strangeness to the protest photos from Santa Cruz in Bolivia over the arrest of the regional governor. A mix of violence and eerie beauty of the weaponized fireworks. Captured with bravery and style by @marcariann @reuterspictures
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Stop Land Grabs
@StopLandGrabs
Pension funds and asset managers like
@TIAA
/Nuveen Bad
@PRI_News
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The SAGE Fund
@SAGEFundrights
New research by @Rede_SJDH shows increased deforestation in the Brazilian cerrado in the 2nd half of 2022 - on traditional community lands where title is in process. This is how land grabs start, then comes investment by pension funds. @StopLandGrabs social.org.br/artigo/artigos
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
The Principles for Responsible Investment are what greenwashing companies like
@TIAA
use to cover their assets. Now with this
@PRI_News
we can see that the Emperor's new clothes are imaginary and ineffective. We need real regulation.
reuters.com
Responsible investment group rejects activist complaint over TIAA
A United Nations-backed responsible investment group has sided with U.S. financial services provider TIAA and turned down a request that the firm's membership be reviewed and possibly revoked over...
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@doug_hertzler
And
@TIAA
calls investing in this guy’s coal business and empire of exploitation of nature and people responsible and principled.
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TIAA-Divest!
@TIAADivest
Gautam Adani--remember his name. Teachers' retirement manager @tiaa invests in his coal plants. "How political will often favors a coal billionaire and his dirty fossil fuel" washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/ #retirement #coal #fossilfuels #climate
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
ActionAid ally in Guatemala CONDEG issued a statement calling for buyers and the international community to hold Naturaceites responsible for the attack. International civil society in Guatemala also denounced the human rights violations. 👇
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Doug Hertzler Retweeted
Tristan Q-T
@TQuinnThib
"Many of us are still learning how to celebrate the harvest holiday of Thanksgiving...without relying on a national myth that has covered up the reality of land grabbing and genocide...we must find ways of creating land justice and making meaningful land reparations..."
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
Give thanks for what we share. Let's reject myths that serve the new colonialism and @StopLandGrabs Demand @TIAADivest . actionaidusa.org/insight/new-my via @ActionAidUSA
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Stop Land Grabs
@StopLandGrabs
Thanksgiving is also a season for reflection and learning. Why are asset managers like
@TIAA
leading the new colonialism? What needs to be done for land and climate justice?
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Doug Hertzler
@doug_hertzler
Give thanks for what we share. Let's reject myths that serve the new colonialism and @StopLandGrabs Demand @TIAADivest . actionaidusa.org/insight/new-my via @ActionAidUSA
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