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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

22 Nov 2025, 20:50

The Richmond Free Press published an article covering the rally and press conference last week outside the VRS building in Richmond. The article covers why public sector workers are calling for the VRS to divest $300 million from weapons and logistics firms who fuel the genocide in Gaza, the violent arrest of a firefighter at the last VRS board meeting, and the work of the campaign to spread awareness of VRS' complicity. Read the rest of the article here: https://m.richmondfreepress.com/news/2025/nov/20/rally-calls-for-vrs-divestment-over-gaza/

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

21 Nov 2025, 03:37

PROFIT OVER PEOPLE: The VRS has arbitrarily sent emails in response to select petition signers. Rather than meaningfully engage with the demands of the petition and those who signed it, they provide a list of excuses in an attempt to evade accountability for their investments. The VRS hides behind a smokescreen of legal and financial jargon, opting to justify their complicity in companies who weaponize genocide. Their excuses fail to cover up the nature of their investment portfolio: the VRS values profit over people. When the corporations they choose to invest in supply a live-streamed genocide, how can profit be the only investment consideration? The VRS must divest from genocide and endless war. Workers and taxpayers should have a say in how public money is spent.

Swipe to challenge their excuses.

SIGN THE PETITION: vrsdivest.org

ENDORSE THE CAMPAIGN: vrsdivest.org/endorse

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

20 Nov 2025, 04:09

Over 1,200 people have signed the No Pensions for Genocide petition, sending a total of over 20,000 emails. These emails have been sent to the VRS Board of Trustees and the Investment Advisory Committee calling on them to (1) Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people and (2) Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any companies that manufacture or ship weapons or weapons components.

Every day, the VRS grows its investments in weapons manufacturers, and every day, the movement challenging those investments grow. Sign the petition today and join over a thousand people in ending investments in war and genocide!

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

18 Nov 2025, 00:27

Sign the petition at vrsdivest.org to hold the VRS responsible for using your earnings and tax dollars to murder and displace Palestinians!

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

18 Nov 2025, 00:27

NO PENSIONS FOR GENOCIDE!

On Thursday, November 13th, community members organized in Richmond, Virginia to confront an institution that uses workers’ hard earned money to fund genocide: the Virginia Retirement System. While Virginians want their pensions and tax dollars to be given back to the community in the form of affordable and accessible housing, education and healthcare, the VRS instead elects to use workers’ hard-earned money to invest in weapons manufacturing companies that are responsible for destroying Palestinian lives. Thus far, the VRS has invested more than $300 million in weapons manufacturers and logistics giants, but the people say no more! The No Pensions for Genocide campaign aims to hold the VRS accountable, demanding the company to divest from investing in genocide. We are fighting for a Virginia that serves the people, not corporate interests and bloodshed.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

11 Nov 2025, 04:41

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The No Pensions for Genocide campaign has attempted to deliver the petition to the VRS twice. At the last Board of Trustees meeting on Sept 25th, Virginia Capitol Police brutally arrested a Virginia firefighter. The VRS must serve the people, not the corporations perpetuating genocide. This is a crisis of democracy.

The VRS Board of Trustees fear our united voices. While they may attempt to silence the people with violence and repression, our convictions remain stronger than their force. Even in handcuffs, Virginia’s firefighter stands tall and speaks truth to power on the VRS’s complicity.

“Benjamin Netanyahu has warrants out for his arrest on the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, but I’m in handcuffs.” Who should be under arrest: Virginia firefighters who denounce genocide or the public officials who perpetuate it?

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

11 Nov 2025, 04:26

The Board of Trustees has made their position clear. A call for divestment from weapons and technologies of genocide at a public meeting is deemed a crime, while genocide is expected to go with impunity.

Sign the petition: vrsdivest.org
And join us on this Thursday, Nov. 13
📍VRS, 1091 E Main St Richmond, VA
⏰ 12:30PM

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

8 Nov 2025, 01:49

We’re here to demand: Divest from weapons. Divest from genocide.
No more profit over people.
No Pensions for Genocide.

📍: VRS, 1091 E Main St Richmond, VA
🗓️: Thurs, Nov 13
⏰: 12:30 PM

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

8 Nov 2025, 01:49

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Virginia’s pensions are funding genocide, and the VRS is silencing those who speak out.

A Virginia firefighter was violently arrested while simply delivering our divestment petition to the Virginia Retirement System Board of Trustees. The VRS will meet with corporations complicit in genocide but refuse to hear even one minute from the people actually funding the system.

While Palestinians are being killed with U.S.–made bombs, VRS invests over $300 million into the corporations that build and ship those weapons. VRS claims to serve the people of Virginia, yet it forcibly ties the livelihood of over 850,000 public employees to companies profiting off of mass murder.

As the firefighter said in the video:
“My fellow Virginians and I work for the betterment of our communities. We enrich our communities, and we want the funds and our pensions to reflect that. And we also believe that everyone should be able to have assurance that their retirement funds are not only secure but aligned with their values.”

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

5 Nov 2025, 03:42

The VRS invests $300 million into companies that manufacture and ship weapons and weapons components for the genocide in Gaza. To date, thousands of emails have been sent to the VRS calling on them to
◦ Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
◦ Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any companies that manufacture or ship weapons or weapons components.

In response, the VRS has refused any accountability for their complicity in genocide and attempted to evade their responsibility to pension payers and Virginia taxpayers. VRS puts profit over people. We say no longer. We deserve a say in where our taxes and pensions go. Sign the petition and endorse the campaign at vrsdivest.org.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

5 Nov 2025, 03:42

PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING: THE VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE

Join the No Pensions for Genocide campaign on Thursday, November 13 for a press conference and rally outside the VRS to learn more about the campaign and to demand the VRS divest from the companies fueling endless wars and the genocide in Gaza!

📍: VRS, 1091 E Main St Richmond, VA
🗓️: Thurs, Nov 13
⏰: 12:30 PM

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

29 Oct 2025, 03:08

ORGANIZATIONS: ENDORSE THE NO PENSIONS FOR GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN! THE VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM WEAPONS AND WAR!

Fill out the form at vrsdivest.org/endorse.

The VRS invests $300 million in weapons manufacturers and logistics companies who directly profit from war and genocide. This local People’s Arms Embargo campaign is building a mass movement calling on the VRS to divest from these weapons manufacturers and logistics companies. Organizations can endorse the campaign and get more involved by filling out the form.

By endorsing organizations are supporting the demands that the VRS:
1. Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
2. Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any company that manufactures or ships weapons or weapons components.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

24 Oct 2025, 00:34

SIGN THE PETITION! THE VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEM MUST DIVEST FROM WEAPONS AND WAR!

vrsdivest.org

The VRS invests $300 million in weapons manufacturers and logistics companies who directly profit from war and genocide. The VRS claims to be in the interest of the people in Virginia but, in reality, a small group of decision makers force Virginia public employees to profit from genocide and mass destruction against their will or input. Our futures do not have to be funded by weapons and war.

Sign the petition and demand that the VRS:
1. Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
2. Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any company that manufactures or ships weapons or weapons components.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

23 Oct 2025, 00:22

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If you had $300 million, what would you invest it in?

We asked Virginia community members this question and every person responded with social services that support the everyday Virginian: better housing, education, and healthcare. So why don’t we have a say into how our money is invested?

The VRS takes the hard earned pensions and taxes of Virginians and invests more than $300 million in companies that profit off of war and genocide. As one community member said, “these corporations prioritize fast and cheap returns, not the community. This must be changed.”

We are fighting for a Virginia that serves the people and our futures, not corporate interests. Join us! Sign the petition at vrsdivest.org and reach out to get more involved!

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

8 Oct 2025, 19:49

Sign the petition and demand that the VRS:
1. Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
2. Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any company that manufactures or ships weapons or weapons components.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

8 Oct 2025, 19:49

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Sign the petition to demand the Virginia Retirement System divest from death and genocide at vrsdivest.org !

We’re here in the heart of Richmond, in front of the Virginia Retirement System. The VRS is the state agency that administers pension plans, retirement savings plans, and other benefits of the state and local public employees in the Commonwealth of Virginia. VRS has invested over $300 million in arms manufacturers and Maersk, which ships those weapons components, to Israel for their genocide against Palestinians.

The VRS claims to be in interest of the people of Virginia, but in reality a small group of decision makers force all VA public employees and taxpayers to fund the genocide and mass destruction of Palestinians against their will or input. All people deserve to have assurance that their retirement investments are not only secure, but also aligned with their values in opposition to war and genocide including the US-backed genocide in Gaza which has killed over 60,000 Palestinians

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

9 Sep 2025, 17:24

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Tune in to hear about PYM work locally and internationally, recent takeaways from the People's Conference for Palestine, local campaigns for a people's arms embargo, confronting the GHF, the federal takeover of DC, and upcoming UNGA march happening in NYC to demand immediate sanctions on Israel and an end to the genocide.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

28 Aug 2025, 01:27

We demand the VRS
- Divest any direct holdings in weapons manufacturers and shipping companies that facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people
- Revise the VRS investment policy to ensure that it does not invest in any companies that manufacture or ship weapons components.

Sign the petition today: bit.ly/VRSdivest (link in bio)

[Petition] Tell The Virginia Retirement System (VRS): No Pensions for Genocide!

The VRS invests hundreds of millions of dollars of its total $1.4 billion directly in weapons and shipping companies that have been responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Join us as we demand VRS: No Pensions for Genocide!

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

28 Aug 2025, 01:27

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On August 20th, Virginians attended the VRS Investment Advisory Committee in Richmond to deliver the No Pensions for Genocide Petition. For over 3 weeks, several hundred emails have been sent to VRS board members, demanding they divest from war and genocide. At this meeting, they reported a net profit, increasing the value of the fund to a record high of $122.8 billion in market value. When presented with the petition, they treated the voices of Virginians as insignificant, and dismissively said they would take the petition “under advisement”. Further advisement would only convey what Virginians have already made clear: no profits over people. They reject VRS’s culture of generating profit without limit, and at a great cost to humanity.

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VRS: No Pensions for Genocide

19 Aug 2025, 01:11

Our futures do not have to be funded by weapons and war. The No Pensions for Genocide Campaign calls on the VRS to invest in life, not death and destruction. The blood of the Palestinian people is not to be traded with. The VRS can invest ethically and end its complicity in genocide. Take a stand today. Sign and share the petition: bit.ly/VRSdivest

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