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I beg pardon for useless or otherwise crosslisting this. A mass mailing
seemed efficient. As I am writing about accountability in the apparel
business as we speak, so to say, if I have inconvenienced or offended
you, fire away. It is, I note, six years, three months, 24 days since
my last puff.
Bob
-- Robert J.S. Ross, Ph.D 508 793 7376 Professor and Chair of Sociology fax: 508 793 8816 Clark University Mailto:Rross@clarku.edu 950 Main Street Http://Www.clarku.edu/~rross Worcester, MA 01610
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Return-path: <feingold@sph.umich.edu> Received: from sph.umich.edu (dns.sph.umich.edu) by CLARKU.EDU (PMDF V5.1-8 #D3060) with ESMTP id <01J2FM84IK0G99RSQN@CLARKU.EDU> for rross@CLARKU.EDU; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:19:57 EST Received: from srvr1.sph.umich.edu (srvr1.sph.umich.edu [141.211.50.49]) by sph.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA14365; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:00:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:00:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene Feingold <feingold@sph.umich.edu> Subject: TIAA-CREF Tobacco Divestment To: Feingold@sph.umich.edu Message-id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980930214944.8262C-100000@srvr1.sph.umich.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
HELP SPREAD THE WORD: THERE'S ANOTHER CHANCE, IN EARLY OCTOBER, TO VOTE FOR GETTING EDUCATORS' CREF RETIREMENT SAVINGS OUT OF LETHAL TOBACCO
Former Surgeon General C.Everett Koop, M.D., is co-sponsoring a tobacco divestment proposal which nearly two million CREF participants will have a chance to vote on this October. TIAA-CREF has confirmed that our proposal will appear on the mail-in ballot which CREF participants should receive in early October. If you have not received TIAA-CREF's mailing by October 15, phone them (800, 842-2733) to request it.
In a supporting statement that will be included in the CREF mailing, Dr. Koop and his three co-sponsors declare it is financially risky and ethically outrageous that CREF has invested nearly $2 billion of educators' retirement savings in "tobacco products which when used as directed produce disease and premature death for a third of their longtime users, including our own students." The proposal calls for CREF to "begin an orderly divestment of all tobacco investments."
Please be sure to vote FOR our proposal. If you can, use e-mail to urge your friends and colleagues to vote for it. Call prospective voters' attention to the fact that the issue will be on the ballot by making announcements at campus meetings and/or sending press releases or letters to the editor to campus newspapers. And consider attending the CREF annual meeting (10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10, in the TIAA-CREF building, 730 Third Ave., New York City), to ask questions and/or speak for tobacco divestment. The TIAA-CREF mailing will include instructions about requesting a ticket to the annual meeting.
Last year support for CREF tobacco divestment increased significantly. With your active help we can win this battle to end collegiate camouflage for cancer !
From: Educators for Tobacco-Free Investments by TIAA-CREF, Box 4151, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; Phone (734), 662-8788; FAX (734) 662-2713.
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