News Mega-pension fund faces calls to divest from firms 'enabling Israeli violations' Shake the CIV said the pension fund currently invests £7billion into companies “complicit in Israel’s crimes” Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter
News Divesting from businesses involved in Palestine would ‘breach legal guidance’, council says Pensions committee chair says Town Hall is legally required to ‘ensure thousands of former council employees are paid’ Author: Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter
News Town Hall reduces carbon investments by a third as campaigners call for further action Council seeks to cease investing in Indonesian coal-mining company as Divest Hackney says progress ‘not moving fast enough’ Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter
News Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment Christmas cards from Hackney children calling for end to high-carbon investments delivered to committee as Town Hall defends 50 per cent divestment by 2022 as ‘ambitious’ Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter
Opinion Titbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough Author: Hackney Citizen
