Who we are:

We are teachers, climate activists and students who demand that the NYS Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) stop funding climate destruction and divest from fossil fuels. We are a committee of Divest NY, who led the successful campaigns to divest The New York State Common Retirement Fund and New York City's pensions funds.

Thanks to the hundreds of activists in dozens of groups across the state for their efforts to get Comptroller DiNapoli to divest from fossil fuels. Here is Divest NY's press release.

Comptroller DiNapoli announces that the NYS Common Retirement Fund will divest!

Divest NY is a grassroots led coalition of dozens of local and statewide organizations. Here is a list of a few of the organizations that currently serve on our planning calls:

350 NYC

350 Rockland / New Jersey

Green Education and Legal Fund

Indivisible New York chapters

New York State Council of Churches

New York Youth Climate Leaders

NY Climate Advocacy Project

NY Climate Reality Project

NRDC

People of Albany United for Safe Energy

People's Climate Movement NY

Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, AFT Local 2334

Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy

Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline

United University Professors NY

WESPAC

Westchester for Change

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To join Divest NY or Divest NY Teachers
contact us at divestny@gmail.com
nyclimateinfo@gmail.com, 518-588-0187.