Does Charlottesville really have investments in weapons dealers and fossil fuel producers?
Yes. Here’s Cville kull ġimgħa artikolu re fossil fuels. Here’s a lista of investments provided by the City that includes obvious weapons dealers like Boeing and Honeywell. Here’s more informazzjoni from the City.
But I know of products those companies make that are not weapons. What gives?
Boeing is the second biggest Pentagon contractor and one of the biggest dealers of weaponry to brutal dictatorships around the world, such as Saudi Arabia. Honeywell is a major weapons dealer.
Can Charlottesville do this?
Yes, Charlottesville divested from South Africa, and more recently from Sudan. Charlottesville has urged state and federal governments in recent years to take actions on wars, drones, and budgetary priorities. Charlottesville can and should act on national and global issues, but this issue is local. It’s our local money, and our locality is impacted by war, war culture, gun sales, and climate destruction. Berkeley, Calif., recently Għadda ċessjoni minn armi. New York City introduċietha, u għaddiet it-tneħħija tagħha minn fjuwils fossili, bħalma għandhom bliet oħra (u nazzjonijiet!)
Can Charlottesville do this and not lose money?
Setting aside the dubious morality and legality of such a question, and noting the responsibility of the City government not to endanger the lives of residents by investing in the destruction of a habitable climate and in the proliferation of weapons, the answer to the question is yes. Here is a helpful artikolu. Hawn ieħor.
Should Charlottesville do even more that we are asking for?
There are unlimited ways in which investments can be made less unethical. Further categories of bad investments could be banned. Proactive efforts to invest in the most ethical places could be required and taken. We have no objections to going further, but are asking for what we see as the most important minimum standards.
Aren’t the environment and weapons two different things?
Of course, and we have no objection to creating two resolutions instead of one, but we believe that one makes the most sense as it accomplishes the further public good of highlighting the numerous connections between the two areas (as detailed in the resolution on the main Divest Cville page u, hawn).
Shouldn’t Charlottesville stop sticking its nose into important matters?
The most common objection to local resolutions on national or global topics, which this could be construed as at a stretch, is that it is not a proper role for a locality. This objection is easily refuted. Passing such a resolution is a moment’s work that costs a locality no resources.
L-Amerikani suppost ikunu rappreżentati direttament fil-Kungress. Il-gvernijiet lokali u statali tagħhom huma wkoll mistennija li jirrappreżentawhom lill-Kungress. Rappreżentant fil-Kungress jirrappreżenta 'l fuq minn nies 650,000 - xogħol impossibbli. Ħafna mill-membri tal-kunsill tal-belt fl-Istati Uniti jieħdu ġurament ta' kariga li jipprometti li jappoġġja l-Kostituzzjoni ta 'l-Istati Uniti. Ir-rappreżentanza tal-kostitwenti tagħhom għal livelli ogħla ta 'gvern hija parti minn kif jagħmlu dan.
Il-bliet regolarment u sew jibagħtu petizzjonijiet lill-Kungress għal kull tip ta 'talba. Dan huwa permess taħt il-Klawżola 3, Regola XII, Taqsima 819, tar-Regoli tal-Kamra tad-Deputati. Din il-klawsola tintuża regolarment biex taċċetta petizzjonijiet minn bliet, u monumenti minn stati, madwar l-Amerika. L-istess huwa stabbilit fil-Manwal ta 'Jefferson, il-ktieb tar-regoli għall-Kamra oriġinarjament miktub minn Thomas Jefferson għas-Senat.
Fix-1798, il-Leġiżlatura ta ’l-Istat ta’ Virginia għaddiet riżoluzzjoni bl-użu tal-kliem ta ’Thomas Jefferson li kkundannaw il-politiki federali li jippenalizzaw lil Franza.
F’1967, qorti f'Kalifornja ddeċidiet (Farley v. Healey, 67 Cal.2d 325) favur id-dritt taċ-ċittadini li jqiegħdu referendum fuq il-votazzjoni kontra l-Gwerra tal-Vjetnam, iddeċidiet: “Bħala rappreżentanti tal-komunitajiet lokali, bord tas-superviżuri u il-kunsilli tal-bliet tradizzjonalment għamlu dikjarazzjonijiet ta ’politika dwar kwistjonijiet ta’ tħassib lill-komunità kemm jekk kellhom is-setgħa jew le li jwettqu tali dikjarazzjonijiet permezz ta ’leġiżlazzjoni li torbot. Tabilħaqq, wieħed mill-għanijiet tal-gvern lokali huwa li jirrapreżenta liċ-ċittadini tiegħu quddiem il-Kungress, il-Leġislatura, u l-aġenziji amministrattivi fi kwistjonijiet li fuqhom il-gvern lokali m'għandux poter. Anki f'materji ta 'politika barranija mhux komuni għall-korpi leġislattivi lokali li jgħarrfu l-pożizzjonijiet tagħhom. "
Abolizzjonisti għaddew riżoluzzjonijiet lokali kontra l-politiki ta ’l-Istati Uniti dwar l-iskjavit.. Il-moviment ta ’kontra l-apartheid għamel l-istess, bħall-moviment ta’ l-iffriżar nukleari, il-moviment kontra l-Att PATRIOT, il-moviment favur il-Protokoll ta ’Kyoto (li jinkludi mill-inqas l-ibliet 740), eċċ. Ir-Repubblika demokratika tagħna għandha tradizzjoni rikka ta’ azzjoni muniċipali fuq kwistjonijiet nazzjonali u internazzjonali.
Karen Dolan of Cities for Peace jikteb: “Eżempju ewlieni ta 'kif il-parteċipazzjoni diretta taċ-ċittadini permezz ta' gvernijiet muniċipali affettwat kemm il-politika ta 'l-Istati Uniti kif ukoll dik dinjija huwa l-eżempju tal-kampanji ta' ċessjoni lokali li jopponu kemm l-Apartheid fl-Afrika t'Isfel u, effettivament, il-politika barranija ta 'Reagan ta' “Impenn kostruttiv” ma ’l-Afrika t'Isfel. Billi l-pressjoni interna u globali kienet qed tiddistabilizza l-gvern ta ’l-Apartheid ta’ l-Afrika t'Isfel, il-kampanji ta ’ċessjoni muniċipali fl-Istati Uniti żiedu l-pressjoni u għenu biex jagħtu spinta lir-rebħa ta’ l-Att Komprensiv Kontra l-Apparteid ta ’1986. Din il-kisba straordinarja inkisbet minkejja l-veto ta 'Reagan u waqt li s-Senat kien f'idejn ir-Repubblika. Il-pressjoni li ħarġu minn dawk li jfasslu l-liġijiet nazzjonali mill-istati ta ’l-Istati Uniti ta’ 14 u viċin ta ’l-ibliet ta’ l-Istati Uniti ta ’100 li kienu ċedew mill-Afrika t'Isfel għamlu d-differenza kritika. Fi żmien tliet ġimgħat mill-override tal-veto, IBM u General Motors ħabbru wkoll li kienu qed jirtiraw mill-Afrika t'Isfel. "
