ReInvest in Sacramento Statement

From ReInvest in Sacramento
reinvestinsacramento@proton.me
June 10, 2026

Win for Palestine! Sacramento Divests from Lockheed Martin & Approves Ethical Investment, Adopts Criteria to Divest from:

  • Severe human rights violations
  • Weapons manufacturing
  • Mass Incarceration
  • Immigration Detention
  • Surveillance  
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Tobacco

Commits to prioritize investments in the well-being of residents

In a historic win for Palestine, Sacramento City Council approved a socially responsible investment policy amendment at the June 9th City Council meeting (see pg. 15 of the staff report). 

This victory affirms that profiting off of human suffering is not profitable for the people of Sacramento. Sacramento joins Alameda County, Albany, Dublin, and Pasadena as well as communities across the country, from Urbana, IL to Washington State, responding to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement’s call to cut ties with the companies fueling genocide, apartheid, and war crimes. In the same step, we commit to divestment from the interconnected systems repressing our communities here at home–companies perpetuating immigrant detention and mass incarceration, prison labor, surveillance and environmental destruction. We are not free until we are all free.

We thank our community for the dedication and leadership to bring us here, Council Members Mai Vang & Roger Dickinson for championing the policy, the Treasurer for introducing it, and Councilmembers Maple, Talamantes, Guerra & Jennings for putting people first. On June 10th, the Treasurer divested from Lockheed Martin; we will continue to push for the City to uphold its commitment by divesting from Caterpillar, IBM and Amazon.

We remember that the struggle is not over and we continue until Palestine is free. The genocide in Palestine is ongoing–Israel has just shut off, again, all crossings into Gaza blocking all aid, food and fuel; it continues a regional campaign of terror by bombing Iran, and occupying and bombing southern Lebanon and evicting over 1 million people from their homes in Beirut.

We can use our power to cut off the companies fueling these atrocities. We call on faith groups, unions, and public pension funds CalSTRS and CalPERS to divest (shout out to @CalSTRSdivest4palestine). We call on all of us to engage with the targeted boycotts, escalate the pressure by all means possible.

Here in Sacramento we call on City Council to pass an ordinance, not a resolution, to ensure local law enforcement isn’t collaborating with ICE to kidnap and unjustly detain our neighbors in inhumane conditions. We call on them to invest in the community they serve by prioritizing in this year’s budget preventative and legal resources for immigrant communities, rather than increased policing and criminalization of those needs. Follow @sacimmigrationcommittee to learn how to support.

Reinvest in Sacramento Coalition members shared why they supported the policy:

Sarah Alzanoon, Palestine American League: “The public revenues the city receives from me and other civil servants are used to fund the bullets that killed my family in Gaza. The current city investments don’t reflect our values; instead, they cause suffering and destruction that deeply impact families like mine, who died at the hands of weapons made in our country. Let’s reinvest in life and divest from death. It’s time for Sacramento residents to see that their tax dollars don’t go to profiteers of genocide, apartheid, and war crimes abroad, or enabling domestic terror by ICE here at home.”

Christopher-Camilo Carbajal-Carbajal, Program & Campaign Coordinator, Decarcerate Sacramento: “The struggle against mass incarceration is connected to struggles against war, occupation, detention, and displacement. The very same systems and corporations profiting from the genocide of Palestinians and other communities abroad are often the same systems and corporations that keep people poor, unhoused, surveilled, detained, and incarcerated here at home. Sacramento’s public funds should reflect our values by investing in communities, not in systems that generate profit from human suffering.”

Giselle Garcia, Programs Director, NorCal Resist: “In recognition that money makes this world go ‘round, Sacramento city residents are making a sound request: that our representatives adopt a socially responsible investment policy that steers the direction in which the world around us spins. This means creating consequences for bad corporate actors by divesting from corporations knowingly inflicting widespread harm, and instead directing city funds towards innovative and uplifting projects for city residents. This is not controversial, it is fiscally responsible and the right thing to do.”

Trinity Smyth, Fossil Free CA: “Fossil fuel corporations continue to do business as usual to extract, exploit and harm people and the world for profit. The inclusion of criteria to enshrine the City’s divestment from publicly-traded fossil fuel corporations helps to break the stronghold these corporations have over our political and economic systems. It also sets a clear path to invest in the well-being of families that live here now and in future generations.”