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Wall Street Journal Front Page Features National Center Activism
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 ...
Top Brands Confronted Over Controversial Stances and Possible Discrimination
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 -- Warner Bros. Discovery, Walmart, Netflix and Alphabet. At Warner Bros. Discovery, Walmart and ...
It’s Not an Accident That Corporate America Is Moving in Lockstep to the Left
How have companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target drifted so far to the left that they seem tone deaf to the values of their consumers? Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard talked recently with Stella Escobedo of the One America ...
Walmart, Netflix and Alphabet Face Challenges from Conservative Shareholder Activists
Proposals Address Discrimination in Hiring and Firing, Corporate Board Incest and Corporate/Government Collusion Washington, D.C. - Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present proposals at three shareholder meetings this week - Walmart, ...
Scott Shepard: The Results Are Coming In For ‘Woke’ Corporate Policies, and They’re Messy
As the 1979 General Election neared, the Conservatives hired the advertising firm of Saatchi & Saatchi to make artwork (for the ‘70s British equivalent of billboards) for the campaign. What they came up with was a drawing of a long line of ...
Scott Shepard: States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations
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 ...
Walmart and Comcast Investors Urged to Oppose Corporate Discrimination
Washington, D.C. – Investor activists with the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) urged Walmart and Comcast investors to vote for two FEP shareholder proposals addressing company policies the activists view as discriminatory. FEP will present the proposals at the respective companies’ ...
Walmart Training Teaches Execs, Managers About America’s “White Supremacy Culture”
Walmart doubled-down about the critical race theory (CRT) training it is forcing on its employees. Confronted by the Fox Business Network about programming created for employees that states white people have “internal racist conditioning” and that objectivity is a part ...
Keeping Walmart’s Woke Gamble From Paying Off
Liberals have traditionally opposed “corporate speech,” particularly when they saw businesses supporting conservative candidates and causes, and especially after the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. “My, how times have changed,” writes Justin Danhof, Esq., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project, in a ...