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At the last full council meeting Croydon Council Pension Committee dismissed calls for divestment from genocide on grounds of cost and fiduciary duty. Here we answer those objections, and show a way forward.

Croydon council pension fund has invested over £1.2 million in Lockheed Martin – the world’s largest arms manufacture. It is infamous for its F-16 and F-35 fighter aircraft, which has been extensively used by Israel in its genocide in Gaza. But there is another product range Lockheed Martin produces, an outlawed one, that is not so well know…

On 16 July the Croydon Divest Coalition, which includes the Resistance Kitchen, protested outside the town hall, where a full meeting of Croydon Council was taking place. The coalition is calling on Croydon council to divest from genocide.

On Saturday 21st June, the Resistance Kitchen joined other local grassroots organisations of the Croydon Divest Coalition, to protest outside the surgery of the head of Croydon council pension committee, Councillor Callton Young who seems to have reneged on a promise to meet us.

On Thursday 5th June 2025 the Resistance Kitchen joined several community groups outside the Croydon Labour party fundraising Gala dinner to protest NHS privatisation, disability cuts, and Labours complicity in genocide.

With your help, mashAllah, we have smashed our target of 1,000 letters to councillors! As of Sunday 8th June 2025, the community has sent 1,272 letters to their local councillors in Croydon and the Council Pension Committee urging them to divest from genocide and instead invest ethically to benefit our community. Every councillor in every ward in Croydon has now received letters from their local residents in their ward.

Croydon council pension fund has invested over £120 million in companies complicit in genocide. Please write to your councillors urging Croydon council to divest from genocide, help us reach a 1000 letters. Use our simple 3 step tool – it only takes 2 minutes.

Send an email to your local Croydon councillor asking them to divest Croydon Council from companies supporting genocide. Use our simple 3-step tool to generate you email.

The Croydon Divest coalition this week challenged Croydon councils investments in arms companies guilty of genocide in Gaza, by tabling a question at the full meeting of Croydon council.