Wal-Mart Implements Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination Policy(A)
Pressure from Shareholders Helps to Bring About Policy Change …
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Sanctions on Burma (A)
Bill Will Be Strongest International Action Yet To Support Burma's Democratic Struggle …
Biz-War?(A)
Now, when companies are under the gun for their behavior and shareholder initiatives are gaining new support in search of corporate transparency and dialogue with stakeholders, it’s a fine time to call us all socialists and create a picture of us as an unpatriotic, anti-corporate, anti-trade invading army. …
Show Me the Money(A)
Governments, campaign groups, and now investors are starting to agree that greater disclosure of oil and mining royalty payments can help fight corruption and poverty in the developing world. …
The New Right Wing Agenda vs. Progressives(A)
Steve Miller is a long-time friend of Trillium Asset Management living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "To survive, we need to find issues and movements that can provide some safe space, that uphold a different world view while not denying the new reality in which we live, that can win some concrete and meaningful small victories (which will require some new strategies and goals) while projecting a vision of more." …
Chevron Texaco Axes Metropolitan Opera Sponsorship, Figuring that 63 Years of Atonement is Enough(A)
So, is the Met a casualty of globalization? …
TAM Weighs in on Director Nominations(A)
In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, we write, "It is time for the Commission to end the fixed, one-candidate-per-slot 'elections' that make 'corporate democracy' an oxymoron. …
As Water Tables Fall, Investors' Concerns Rise(A)
A first-of-its-kind shareholder resolution on the risks water scarcity poses to business and communities gained significant support at PepsiCo's May annual meeting. …
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