Caterpillar: Corporations that kill

The parents of a US peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer built by the global machinery giant Caterpillar confronted the company last week for the first time, urging shareholders at its annual meeting to end sales of "weaponised bulldozers to Israel".

Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of the late Rachel Corrie, attended the meeting as proxy voters on behalf of Jewish and Christian institutional investors who have filed a resolution asking for greater corporate accountability from Caterpillar.

"Why would we pay for our own homes with the destruction of other people's homes? Why would we fund our retirements with the destruction of other people's olive groves?" the Corries asked of shareholders. " [Caterpillar shareholders] should know there are good and decent people in Israel, in Palestine ... and [shareholders] should support them and not support violence," they said in a statement.

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