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Pfizer Levi Strauss

Pfizer and Levi Strauss Face Challenges from Conservative Shareholders Over Support of Divisive Causes

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Washington, D.C. – At this week’s Pfizer and Levi Strauss annual shareholder meetings, shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will demand accountability for the companies’ partisan and divisive charitable donations. Both proposals ...
Goldman Sachs tower

Goldman Sachs to Get Net-Zero Reality Check from Local Pastor

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Washington, D.C. - At today's Goldman Sachs annual shareholder meeting, Pastor Ryan Shaddix will present a shareholder proposal on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP), requesting that the company conduct a review to ...
David and Goliath businessman

Levi Strauss, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs and Cigna Face Challenges from Conservative Shareholders

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Proposals Target Donations to Radical Causes, Net Zero Plans and DEI Programs Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present proposals at four shareholder meetings this week –Levi Strauss, ...
Stefan Padfield: Larry Fink's Investor Letter Ignores Elephants In BlackRock's Room

Stefan Padfield: Larry Fink’s Investor Letter Ignores Elephants In BlackRock’s Room

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"The most noticeable thing about Larry Fink’s letter to his investors is the deafening silence on ESG and BlackRock’s associated self-inflicted wounds," Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Stefan Padfield says in a response published at RealClearMarkets. Read Stefan's entire commentary below ...
Best Buy store

Stefan Padfield: Are We Witnessing the Retreat of Woke Capital?

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In a commentary published at Human Events, Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Stefan Padfield says that "for all the talk of woke capital being in retreat, the reality is that corporations like Best Buy... appear to be still very much ...
Bob Iger Disney Mickey Mouse Minnie

Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney’s Odd Shareholder Vote

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"[W]hen shareholders vote, the votes go to a company called Broadridge that somehow controls nearly all the voting pipes," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in a commentary published by RealClearMarkets. So one would hope that Broadridge is a nonpartisan entity ...
Disney shareholders

Shareholders Ask Disney to Disclose Pattern of Controversial Charitable Donations – Disney Board Says NO!

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Washington, D.C. – Today, concerned shareholders from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal (Proposal #8) at The Walt Disney Company annual shareholder meeting that would require the Company to disclose on ...
Scott Shepard: Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes

Scott Shepard: Hate Woke Corporatism? Vote Your Shares Against It In Minutes

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"There’s another tool to fight woke – one that shareholders can use, whether they own a few shares or millions," write Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard at The Daily Caller. For instance, in the case of the upcoming Disney ...
Starbucks

Shareholders Ask Starbucks to Protect Employees from Viewpoint Discrimination — Company Says Vote NO!

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Washington, D.C./Seattle, WA - Today, shareholder activists from the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal at Starbucks' annual shareholder meeting (Proposal #5) that would require the Company to conduct an audit to ...
Attention Starbucks Investors: Take a Stand Against DEI

Attention Starbucks Investors: Take a Stand Against DEI

The Free Enterprise Project has an important proposal on the ballot of this week's Starbucks shareholder meeting. The proposal would require Starbucks to conduct an audit to determine the extent to which its “Partner Networks” (what are usually called Employee ...

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