CA Teachers ‘Mad’
Pensions Still Invested in Bushmaster Firearms After Sandy Hook Shooting
by AWR Hawkins 22 Mar 2015
Two years after the heinous attack at Sandy Hook Elementary, California
teachers are “mad” that their
pension fund is still invested in Bushmaster firearms.
Despite post-Sandy Hook promises to divest, the pension
fund, CalSTRS, is invested in Freedom Group, which owns Bushmaster.
According to Eyewitness
News 12, CalSTRS is indirectly invested in Freedom Group via several
funds “managed by private equity firm Cerberus Capital.” The Cerberus funds are
invested in Freedom Group, which is “also known as Remington Outdoor.”
In an attempt to turn the tide on such investments,
California teachers are planning to gather and protest at the CalSTRS fund
meeting on April 2.
California Federation of Teachers
president Joshua Pechthalt said: “As teachers and parents, we see the
havoc these guns bring to our community, our family and our loved ones. So
whatever it takes, we want our money divested from gun manufacturers.”
Investors spent the last two years racing to gun companies
to get in the monster profits some of them were generating in 2013 and 2014.
But Pechthalt is not impressed. He said, even if dropping gun companies “means
a slight loss, so be it.”
He said CFT is “not weighing [what’s] financially
beneficial” at this time.
Sandy Hook
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including gunman.
Note: Newtown (CT) is
the location of the 2012 massacre at
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Martin Feinberg
is a Newtown (CT) resident, and Stephen A. Feinberg’s father.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is Martin Feinberg’s
son, the CEO for Cerberus Capital
Management L.P., and a trustee at the Public
Theater.
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Cerberus Capital Management L.P.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Remington Outdoor Company.
Bushmaster
Firearms is a Remington Outdoor
Company brand.
Debunking The “AR-15
Was In The Trunk” Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory
Posted by Bob Owens on December 15, 2014 at 9:03 pm
These people infuriate me, but they’re easy enough to deal
with by simply banning them.
A bit more difficult to deal with are those who have been
fed the fantasy that the attacker* did not use a Bushmaster AR-15 to carry out 26 murders and wound two other people
in the school. For whatever reason, people who normally know that you
can’t trust anything the mainstream media says about firearms, at any time,
suddenly feel compelled to believe that the various early and conflicting
reports from that specific day must be true.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Remington
Outdoor Company, and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Economic Policy Institute.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the Economic Policy
Institute, the Drum Major Institute
for Public Policy, and the International
Rescue Committee.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, and is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety.
Robert W. Pittman
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and was a trustee at the Public
Theater.
Kenneth
B. Lerer is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, and was the chairman for the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, the CEO for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and Martin
Feinberg’s son.
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Cerberus Capital Management L.P.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Remington Outdoor Company.
Bushmaster
Firearms is a Remington Outdoor
Company brand.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including gunman.
Rhonda Weingarten
is a director at the Economic Policy
Institute, a director at the Drum
Major Institute for Public Policy, an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and
was the president of the United
Federation of Teachers.
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