Did you just find out your financial institution is investing in the companies that make nuclear weapons?
Get in touch with them!
You can always give customer service a call, but if you’d prefer to put pen to paper, consider adapting the letter below.
Dear Chief Executive Officer,
I am writing to you as a concerned customer of your bank. I recently read a report indicating that your bank has provided capital loans to three companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons.
Those companies are:
[Pick from the list]The financing of these companies contributes to the build-up and modernization of nuclear arms and undermines efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament. It also heightens the risk that one day these inhumane weapons will be used again.
Any use of nuclear weapons would violate fundamental rules of international law and have catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences. I strongly encourage you to divest from these companies without delay.
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons makes any activity assisting in the production or manufacture of nuclear weapons illegal. As the Treaty comes into effect, the companies associated with nuclear weapons are facing increasing reputational and regulatory risk.
The support of your bank and other financial institutions will be crucial to the success of worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. I hope that you will assist rather than impede efforts to eliminate this ultimate threat to our future.
Investing in companies associated with nuclear weapons is risky business. I want my savings to help secure my future and that of my family, not undermine it. Unless you can reassure me that you will no longer invest in nuclear weapons producers, I intend to move my funds elsewhere.
I look forward to your response to these concerns.
Yours sincerely,
C.C.
Concerned Customer