Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investing
Engaging corporations in pursuit of social and environmental justice
Proxy Preview 2017 was recently released by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), and Proxy Impact. It lists shareholder resolutions filed this year and lays out major themes, including corporate political influence, climate change and economic inequality.
(graphic used with permission of As You Sow)
U.S. companies including major exporters General Electric Co (GE.N) and Boeing Co (BA.N) launched a coalition on Thursday to back a House Republican plan to tax all imports, saying the proposal would “support American jobs and American-made products.”
Fr. Mike Crosby, O.F.M., Cap. was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for his years of advocacy in shareholder resolving, including the recent decision by ExxonMobil to add a scientist with expertise in climate studies to its Board of Directors.
Seven banks—including Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and Citibank—will meet with Standing Rock Sioux leaders after months of intense defund-DAPL pressure.
NEW YORK, NY – Thursday January 26, 2017 – Members of the Interfaith Center and long-term shareholders of ExxonMobil were encouraged by Exxon’s decision yesterday to appoint a climate scientist to its board of directors.
In a company press statement yesterday, ExxonMobil announced that Dr. Susan K. Avery was elected to its board of directors, effective February 1, 2017. Avery, an atmospheric scientist, is the former president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her appointment is responsive to a long-standing request from shareholders to appoint a climate expert to its board.
For three years, led by the Fr. Mike Crosby, O.F.M., Cap. and others within the Midwest Capuchins, ICCR shareholders and other groups have filed a resolution calling on ExxonMobil to elect an Independent Director with Climate Change Expertise. Until now, the company has opposed this effort.
Several members of Seventh Generation Interfaith, including the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, School Sisters of St. Francis, Sinsinawa Dominican Shareholder Action Committee, Sisters of St. Dominic (Racine, Wisc.), Sisters of the Presentation, and Sisters of the Presentation of the BVM, have co-signed a letter to the Trump Administration and U.S. Congress, asking them to protect the Affordable Care Act in the U.S.
Mark Peters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Seventh Generation Interfaith, and the work of our organization, are featured in the annual report of the Justice, Peace, and Reconciliation Commission of the Society of the Priests of the Sacred Heart.
Christopher Cox, Campaign Manager of the Human Thread Campaign, will address interested parties on the purpose and activities of the Campaign after the 8 am Mass on Sun., Jan. 15, Holy Family Catholic Community, 271 Fourth St. Way, Fond du Lac, Wisc. Plan to attend. It is an easy drive from Milwaukee; and, Holy Family is the home parish of your Webmaster.
Congratulations to the Human Thread Campaign! See the shoutout for the Human Thread Campaign voiced by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
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