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Cola Cola Coke Discrimination DEI

Scott Shepard: Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor

FEP Commentary /
"The Coca-Cola corporation has adopted a plan to revert back to racial discrimination against non-whites after discriminating in favor of non-whites for at least the last half decade," National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard reveals in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. Of ...
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FEP on WSJ Wall Street Journal front page

Wall Street Journal Front Page Features National Center Activism

Free Enterprise Project /
The shareholder activism of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) was featured yesterday on the front page of The Wall Street Journal print edition. In a page-one feature entitled "‘Anti-Woke’ Shareholders Are Going After Corporate Boards," Sarah Nassauer and ...
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soda coke

I’ll Take a Soda, a Show and Even the Check – But Please, Hold the DEI

Press Release /
Conservative Shareholders Challenge Discriminatory Practices at Coca-Cola, Pepsi, MGM and Citigroup Meetings Washington, D.C. – Giving voice to growing concerns regarding corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies, shareholders with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ...
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Corporations in the Crosshairs: Shareholder Proposals Target DEI, Human Rights Hypocrisy, Unrealistic Emissions Commitments and More

Corporations in the Crosshairs: Shareholder Proposals Target DEI, Human Rights Hypocrisy, Unrealistic Emissions Commitments and More

Press Release /
Citigroup, IBM, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, MGM, Capital One, Kraft Heinz and Berkshire Hathaway Should Return to Neutrality on Social and Political Issues Washington, D.C. – In one of their busiest weeks of the season, shareholder activists with the National Center for ...
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Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

FEP Commentary /
Climate Collusion With Consequences? In a commentary published by The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Sarah Rehberg notes that "the ESG lobby has apparently done such a good job bragging about its partnerships that federal lawmakers are investigating whether ...
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Scott Shepard at the 2020 Walgreens shareholder meeting

The 2023 Shareholder Meeting Season in Review

Free Enterprise Project /
Like last year, the 2023 shareholder meeting season was a mixed bag of hope and frustration. On one hand, rampant wokeness and corruption continue to define shareholder meetings. But promisingly, there is more pushback to corporate wokeness than ever before, ...
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Introducing the 2023 Corporate Incest Chart

Introducing the 2023 Corporate Incest Chart

Free Enterprise Project /
"Why is James Quincey, the CEO of Coca-Cola, also on Pfizer’s Board of Directors?" asked Free Enterprise Project Associate Ethan Peck in a recent Human Events commentary. "Seems awfully convenient that the guy who seeks to profit most from sugary ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Scott Shepard: States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations

FEP Commentary /
Last week The Federalist published an important story detailing how various companies are “laundering” or “out-sourcing” their efforts to discriminate against so-called “non-diverse” employees on the basis of race, sex and orientation to non-profits, charities and public benefit corporations. It reported that [i]n response to ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Corporations Pay Employees to Discriminate Based on Race… And That’s Illegal

FEP Commentary /
A series of shareholder demands predicate to lawsuits, and now some lawsuits themselves are forcing some notably bad-actor corporations away from the unquestionably illegal policy of discriminating on the bases of race, sex and orientation in the name of equity ...
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corporate elites

Corporate Elites Don’t Recognize Shareholders As Owners

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Every American has experienced miserable customer service from our corporate overlords, but that cold shoulder is a warm hug compared to how corporations cheat and deceive their own owners — the shareholders. As a conservative shareholder activist for the Free ...
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