Posts Tagged ‘Landmines’

Proxy Voting Guidelines - Social Issues

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AND PREDATORY LENDING
We support resolutions that promote community reinvestment by financial institutions in low-income, often predominantly minority communities. We also support resolutions against predatory lending practices.
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Burma
We support resolutions that seek to stop companies doing business with the Burmese military junta.
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
We support resolutions that ask companies to review the impact […]

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Make General Electric a Landmine-Free Zone!

Monday, November 19th, 2007

If you have stock in GE, be sure to vote in support of our proposal. Look for your proxy ballot in the mail starting in March. (If you don’t usually receive corporate ballots, the company may be sending them to your broker or investment manager, and you will have to instruct them to […]

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Landmines

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) is the co-sponsor of a shareholder proposal urging General Electric to renounce any involvement in producing landmines.
Landmines are weapons of little or no military value. They are used principally as weapons of terror against civilians — planted, for example, in fields and wells to discourage settlers. The effect is devastating. […]

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