I have a strong presentiment that my mail-in ballot will be outlawed. Either that or I won't be around for the future elections. But SWAY sounds like a great and powerful use of our digital technologies. Go for it!
BlackRock maintains significant stakes in weapons companies such as General Dynamics, a military contractor that has also taken a government contract to provide “social services” to migrant children held at U.S. detention camps.Learn more about the connection between BlackRock, General Dynamics, and migrant detention.
BlackRock Quick Facts
BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world
BlackRock controls more than $10 trillion assets under management
Characterized as the world’s largest shadow bank
They own the iShares franchise of investment funds, as well as other proprietary investment vehicles.
Weapons Free Fund: BlackRock/iShares is 2.11% invested in weapon stocks, with $37.76 BILLION invested across 313 equity funds
One of BlackRock’s iShares funds is exclusively dedicated to “defense spending” -The U.S. Aerospace and Defense iShares ETF
They have $6.9 billion invested in Boeing, $4.2 billion in General Dynamics; $9.7 billion in Lockheed Martin; $4.4 billion in Northrop Grumman; and $11.5 billion billion in Raytheon.
At the end of 2017, the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink,made an announcement that he was going to start holding companies accountable to be good corporate citizens
BlackRock recognizes the impacts and dangers of civilian firearms by creating two gun-free funds and voting for the Sturm Ruger shareholder proposal. In 2020, the company released a series of weapons-free funds; however, it has a long way to go to be completely free of weapons.
Thanks for flagging! I'm being advised to share that you should submit for manual review and the Sway team should be able to turn it around within 24 hours to resolve it. Thanks for diving in!
I have a question for you. As a citizen from Oregon, I don’t feel donating to candidates or endorsing candidates of other states during the primary season is appropriate. The citizens of those states should make the decision of representation. After primaries, I may donate to candidates of other states based on platform and purpose. Is the Sway app set up to influence voters of only my local and state ballots, or national as well?
Great question. Sway allows you to work at the level you feel most aligned with. Local, state, or federal. You can absolutely build a voter group only focused on local and state, or only local. It's completely your call.
Unfortunately as a Canadian, I can't participate, but I believe this is an excellent tool to organize from the ground up!
If I could join, I would not hesitate to be a partner in your voting group! I wish you and everyone in this community a successful campaign ahead of the primaries and the very consequential mid-terms.
I have a strong presentiment that my mail-in ballot will be outlawed. Either that or I won't be around for the future elections. But SWAY sounds like a great and powerful use of our digital technologies. Go for it!
BlackRock maintains significant stakes in weapons companies such as General Dynamics, a military contractor that has also taken a government contract to provide “social services” to migrant children held at U.S. detention camps.Learn more about the connection between BlackRock, General Dynamics, and migrant detention.
BlackRock Quick Facts
BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world
BlackRock controls more than $10 trillion assets under management
Characterized as the world’s largest shadow bank
They own the iShares franchise of investment funds, as well as other proprietary investment vehicles.
Weapons Free Fund: BlackRock/iShares is 2.11% invested in weapon stocks, with $37.76 BILLION invested across 313 equity funds
One of BlackRock’s iShares funds is exclusively dedicated to “defense spending” -The U.S. Aerospace and Defense iShares ETF
They have $6.9 billion invested in Boeing, $4.2 billion in General Dynamics; $9.7 billion in Lockheed Martin; $4.4 billion in Northrop Grumman; and $11.5 billion billion in Raytheon.
At the end of 2017, the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink,made an announcement that he was going to start holding companies accountable to be good corporate citizens
BlackRock recognizes the impacts and dangers of civilian firearms by creating two gun-free funds and voting for the Sturm Ruger shareholder proposal. In 2020, the company released a series of weapons-free funds; however, it has a long way to go to be completely free of weapons.
DONE!! ✊🏽
Awesome!
I’m registered in Oregon to vote. But the app doesn’t show it?
Thank you Qasim ✌🏻
Thanks for flagging! I'm being advised to share that you should submit for manual review and the Sway team should be able to turn it around within 24 hours to resolve it. Thanks for diving in!
I joined! TY.
Amazing!
I have a question for you. As a citizen from Oregon, I don’t feel donating to candidates or endorsing candidates of other states during the primary season is appropriate. The citizens of those states should make the decision of representation. After primaries, I may donate to candidates of other states based on platform and purpose. Is the Sway app set up to influence voters of only my local and state ballots, or national as well?
Great question. Sway allows you to work at the level you feel most aligned with. Local, state, or federal. You can absolutely build a voter group only focused on local and state, or only local. It's completely your call.
Thanks!
Only if you trust the counting machines
Wow, this is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I think you'll really enjoy it. It becomes even more exciting when you set up your own Sway and your local community starts to follow your recs.
Can’t wait to start ✊🏽
Unfortunately as a Canadian, I can't participate, but I believe this is an excellent tool to organize from the ground up!
If I could join, I would not hesitate to be a partner in your voting group! I wish you and everyone in this community a successful campaign ahead of the primaries and the very consequential mid-terms.
Thank you for at least helping spread the word! That goes a long way. And methinks Sway should build out to Canada too!