Category: Free Enterprise Project
Pfizer and Levi Strauss Face Challenges from Conservative Shareholders Over Support of Divisive Causes
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 to Get Net-Zero Reality Check from Local Pastor
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 ...
Levi Strauss, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs and Cigna Face Challenges from Conservative Shareholders
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
"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 ...
Stefan Padfield: We Need to Stop the SEC From Tracking & Weaponizing Your Financial Data
On the One America News Network, Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Deputy Director Stefan Padfield told host Stella Escobedo why FEP has joined with the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) to stop the latest (and arguably most dangerous) power grab by ...
Stefan Padfield: Are We Witnessing the Retreat of Woke Capital?
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 ...
FEP Joins Lawsuit to Take Down SEC’s Illegal Mass Data Collection Machine
Washington, D.C. - Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a complaint against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) challenging the agency's unconstitutional "Consolidated Audit Trail" (CAT). The National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is one of the ...
The Shareholder Activism of Anti-Discrimination Proponents
Corporate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) policies pose "serious and potentially vast financial risks to companies in addition to being inherently discriminatory and in violation of civil rights." Thankfully the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is sounding the alarm ...
Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney’s Odd Shareholder Vote
"[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 ...
Shareholders Ask Disney to Disclose Pattern of Controversial Charitable Donations – Disney Board Says NO!
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 ...
