March 5, 2008

Religious Investors Urge 63 Top U.S. Restaurant, Food, Beverage, Candy Companies To Oppose Spring Planting Of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets

By: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

“Don’t Mess With Sugar!” is Message Consumers Will Send to Companies Positioned to Block Genetic Tinkering With Sugar; Major Brand, Reputation and Consumer Confidence Issues Seen.

February 26, 2008

A NEW ERA FOR RESPONSIBLE INVESTORS

By: Walden Asset Management

Leading social investment manager finds companies increasingly receptive to sustainability issues, shareholder engagement

February 14, 2008

AFL – CIO Policies and Votes in Director Elections

By: AFL-CIO

The AFL – CIO is an active institutional investor with clearly spelled out policies and procedures for its proxy voting in corporate director elections. This report – “Facts About the AFL – CIO Proxy Votes” – explains these...

February 4, 2008

Thompson Announces Unprecedented Effort To Push Corporate America To Protect Lgbt Workers

By: New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr

All new measures include gender identity - Six companies already adopt City’s request

January 25, 2008

CalPERS Opposes Re-Election of Seven Sanmina Board Members

By: CalPERS

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced it is opposing re-election of seven Board members of Sanmina-SCI Corporation because of unresolved poor stock performance and...

January 25, 2008

Institutional Investors Continue to Press Companies for an Advisory Vote on Executive Pay

By: Accountability- Central Newsroom

Shareholder resolutions filed with over 90 companies by Over 70 institutional and individual investors

January 25, 2008

SEC Green Lights An Unprecedented Shareholder Proposal; Proposal asks Fidelity to make its funds genocide-free

By: Investors Against Genocide

Against Genocide – Draw the line at investing in genocide.

Boston, MA -- Shareholders of Fidelity’s Contra Fund will soon have the opportunity to vote on a shareholder proposal which asks the mutual fund giant to ensure that...

January 23, 2008

Is Your 401K Funding Genocide? New organization asks individuals to demand that mutual fund companies become genocide-free

By: Investors Against Genocide

Investors Against Genocide -- Draw the line at investing in genocide

December 12, 2007

LIUNA Achieves Victory in Aggressive Effort on Behalf of Shareholders, Workers and Homeowners

By: (CSRwire)

In Precedent-Setting Ruling, SEC Requires Beazer Homes to Place a LIUNA Proposal Seeking Full Disclosure of Its Mortgage and Housing Market Investments on its Proxy Statement for Shareholder Consideration

December 12, 2007

Shareholder Proposal Revisits Fiduciary Duty at Agribusiness Goliath, Monsanto

By: (CSRwire)

NAPA,CA - December 11, 2007 - Harrington Investments, Inc., (HII) a socially responsible investment advisory firm, has announced the introduction of a binding amendment to Monsanto Corporation's corporate bylaws that could bar...