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Article

12 Nov 2011

Author:
Kevin Roose, New York Times

Nuns Who Won’t Stop Nudging [USA]

[T]his…order of 540…nuns has become one of the most surprising groups of corporate activists…The nuns have gone toe-to-toe with Kroger…over farm worker rights; with McDonald’s, over childhood obesity; and with Wells Fargo, over lending practices…In 1980, Sister Nora and her community formed a corporate responsibility committee…A year later…they…boycotted Big Oil, took aim at Nestlé over labor policies, and urged Big Tobacco to change its ways…Once they took aim at a company, they bought the minimum number of shares that would allow them to submit resolutions at that company’s annual shareholder meeting…Robert J. Stevens, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, has lent her an ear, as has Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP…“We’re not here to put corporations down,” Sister Nora said…“We’re here to improve their sense of responsibility.” [also revers to GE, Walmart, Chevron, Exxon, Goldman Sachs]