Good news from the Wal-Mart world: it appears they’re more serious about adopting substantial corporate ethics strategies than previously thought. Wal-Mart has issued a new job posting for a corporate executive business ethics point person to work for the world’s largest retailer and who… …will oversee a team of about ten staffers inside Wal-Mart’s Global [...]
Continue reading...By Nile, March 9 2006
Last weekend, Jumpstart Ford Organizers, Nile Malloy and Mike Hudema facilitated two non-violent direct action (NVDA) and corporate campaign strategy trainings at The Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference. The conference was sponsored by Energy Action, Global Exchange, Student PIRGS, Sierra Student Coalition and the Apollo Alliance, and brought together over 300 students from across the [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, March 8 2006
In case people forgot that shareholder activism works here’s a quick refresher. Actvists in Winnipeg, Manitoba attended Scotia Bank’s annual shareholder meeting last week and had an amazing response to their questions around corporate-social responsibility. Here are Beau and Shelagh’s report from Winnipeg: Scotiabank held their Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 3. [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, March 6 2006
Wendell Covalt and fellow RAN activist David Rosenstein led a victorious effort to show the Santa Monica Co-Opportunity natural foods store why they should stop buying Weyerhaeuser paper bags. In his own words… The Santa Monica Co-opportunity is a natural grocery co-op that is well regarded in Santa Monica, California. It is member owned and [...]
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By Japhet, March 9 2006
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