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divest-tesla
Tell CalPERS and CalSTRS to sell their combined $3B+ investment in Tesla stock (TSLA)
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Sign the Petition
- Send an email message to each member of the CalPERS and CalSTRS governing boards
- Sign the petition to CalPERS & CalSTRS and sign up for our mailing list
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Coming Events
- ActionNetwork.org
- Mobilize.US
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CalPERS
California Public Employees Retirement System - Send your own email to CalPERS
- Statement by CalPERS board member Mulissa Willette requesting study of Tesla (from transcript of board meeting, 9/15/2025)
- Video: Request by board member Mulissa Willette and CalPERS Board Investment Committee for staff report on risk and valuation of Tesla, 9/15/2025
- Video: Investment Committee report to the full CalPERS board, 9/17/2025: "The Chair directed staff to conduct a risk assessment associated with owning Tesla stock."
- Next CalPERS Board meeting: Mon-Wed, Nov. 17-19, 2025, Sacramento and online (details to come)
- Statements on divestment from Tesla by candidates for the CalPERS Board (voting by members ends Sept. 29, 2025)
- Petition with initial 588 signatures (including 240 CalPERS beneficiaries) presented to CalPERS board, June 16, 2025
- Additional 585 signatures (including 149 CalPERS members) presented to CalPERS board, July 14, 2025
- Most recent CalPERS report of stock holdings as of 6/30/2025
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CalSTRS
California State Teachers Retirement System - Send your own email to CalSTRS
- Next CalSTRS Board meeting: Wed.-Thurs., Nov. 12-13, 2025, West Sacramento and online
- Petition with initial 1007 signatures (including 285 CalSTRS beneficiaries) presented to CalSTRS board, July 9, 2025
- Most recent CalSTRS report of stock holdings as of 6/30/2025
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Resources
- TSLA divestment leaflet to distribute at Tesla pickets, union meetings, etc. (PDF)
- Talking points for messages to the CalPERS and CalSTRS Boards
- Editable leaflet (MS-Word document)
- Editable leaflet (LibreOffice document)
- Sample letter to the editor (published in the S.F. Chronicle)
- QR code to advertise this site
- #TeslaTakedown actions around the world
- Not a CalSTRS or CalPERS member? Campaign for a Tesla-free mutual fund (see also links below for pension funds in other states)
- More Downloads & Resources
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Audio & Video
- Video: Request by board member Mulissa Willette and CalPERS Board Investment Committee for staff report on risk and valuation of Tesla, 9/15/2025
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at September 2025 CalPERS Board meeting
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at September 2025 CalSTRS board meeting
- Video: Comment on delegation of decisions on investments including Tesla at September 2025 CalSTRS meeting
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at July 2025 CalPERS board meeting
- Audio: Comments for Tesla divestment at July 2025 CalSTRS board meeting
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at June 2025 CalPERS board meeting
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at May 2025 CalSTRS board meeting
- Video: Comments for Tesla divestment at March 2025 CalSTRS board meeting
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Support
- American Federation of Teachers Calls on Chief Fiduciary Officers to Examine Tesla Investments
- National Institute for Workers’ Rights and LatinoJustice Urge CalPERS to Divest from Tesla
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Press
- Rolling Stone: "Blue States Invest Retirees’ Savings in Firms Boosting Trump’s Extreme Agenda"
- Bloomberg: "Tesla Divestment: Trump’s Trade War Seen as a Big Risk for $350 Billion CalSTRS"
- Countercurrents: "Demanding that CalSTRS and CalPERS divest their $2B of TSLA stock"
- Daily Kos: "Tesla Divestment: Report from the CalPERS Meeting Today"
- Daily Kos: "Activists Call on CalSTRS to Divest from Tesla"
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Other States
- Comments to the Orgeon Public Employees Retirement System supporting divestment from Tesla
- Lehigh County, PA: "Why Ours Became the First US Pension Fund to Cease New Tesla Stock Purchases"
- Institutional Investor: "A U.S. Pension Stopped Investing in Tesla. The Controller Expects More to Follow. "
- Bloomberg: "Chicago’s Retired Teachers Question Pension’s Tesla Holdings"
- Petition to divest New York State’s pension fund from Tesla stock
- Petition to divest New Jersey's state pension fund from Tesla stock
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Other Countries
- Canadian Association of Professional Employees demands Public Sector Pension Investment Board divest from Tesla
- Sweden's largest insurer divests all of US$160M Tesla stake
- Dutch pension fund sold entire stake in Tesla worth US$585M
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Contact
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