Week 28: Morally Responsible Investing Online Gathering
Week 28: Morally Responsible Investing Online Gathering
You can find the 2021 gathering here.
On July 12 we addressd ways you can use Morally Responsible Investing to support Palestine. We were joined by Charlotte Marshall, director of Sabeel-Kairos UK.
More about our guest:
Charlotte Marshall has worked in support of Palestinian human rights for over 15 years. She has been the advocacy officer at Sabeel-Kairos UK since 2014, creating and leading the organisation’s campaign ‘Investing for Peace’ in the UK Churches. Prior to joining Sabeel-Kairos she worked for 10 years at Christian Aid, in several roles pertaining to the Middle East including as Gaza programme officer and Middle East Communications officer. Charlotte has a masters degree in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Birmingham, and wrote her dissertation on the Rights of Palestinian refugees in international law. She visits Palestine whenever she can, and tries to keep up with her (very) rusty Arabic. Charlotte lives in Surrey with her husband and two young children.
You can read Charlotte’s “Reflections from Palestine” at https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/reflections-from-palestine-charlotte-marshall/
You can find Sabeel-Kairos UK on their website at https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/ and followe them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SabeelKairos and Twitter at Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabeelKairos
You can find information on their Investing for Peace campaign at https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/category/taking-action/investing-for-peace/ and their publication Investing for Peace: A Guide for Local Church Activists at https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Investing-for-Peace-free-download-June-19.pdf.
Activism Time
Full Kumi Action at:
https://kuminow.com/morallyresponsible/#kumiaction
From the Presentation/Chat
A recently published book by Brian J Brown entitled “Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel? covers it well .
Please see a full report of the action of the General Assembly- www.theipmn.org
Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS): www.pmrs.ps
www.christianzionism.org
We are part of the coalition challenging the anti-boycott bill – see here: https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/write-to-your-mp-oppose-the-anti-boycott-bill/