Not to be outmatched, the Oakland City Council followed in Berkeley’s footsteps Tuesday with a call to boycott companies involved in the building of a border wall with Mexico. San Francisco is already poised to pass even stricter divestment legislation. Long Beach, San Diego, Larkspur and Watsonville have reportedly expressed interest in the movement as well.
At the state level, lawmakers are proposing legislation (AB 946) that would require the state’s pension funds to divest from companies involved in the wall’s construction. These funds are frequent targets of politically-driven divestment movements. Legislators took the same tack with regards to the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in the form of AB 20.
Oakland and San Francisco’s resolutions can be read here and here.