The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing, and Democracy

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Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005 - Business & Economics - 392 pages

Our only chance to save the planet and take back control of our economy and political system lies in our ability to control our dollars. In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years of experience, John C. Harrington gives investors the strategies to thwart corporate domination of the earth's resources, decentralize our economy, restore democracy, tame corruption, and regain community control of our financial resources.

A strong advocate of using shareholder power to push for responsible corporate practices that benefit society, Harrington warns that we are running out of time; corporate abuse of shareholders and other stakeholders runs rampant. Concerted, coordinated shareholder action is needed to challenge corporations to adopt human, labor, and environmental codes of conduct to eliminate years of egregious and abusive practices.

For corporate America to change in time, a revolution--fueled by investor dollars--must come from within.

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
Are Politicians and Government Relevant?
13
Have Corporations Run Amok?
67
The SRI Experience
90
Making It Easy
120
The Power of Nonprofits
151
Substance or Illusion?
184
Shareholder Revenge
222
A New Beginning
272
Attack The Struggle for Shareholder Power Corporate
308
TRIBUTE
334
Social Criteria
340
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke Advertisement
364
BIBLIOGRAPHY
384
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John C. Harrington has been a leader in the socially responsible investment movement for over thirty years, and was a key architect of the divestment movement against the apartheid government in South Africa. He is currently the President and CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc. Author of Investing with Your Conscience, he is also one of the founders and former chairman of the board of Working Assets and Progressive Asset Management, two pioneering socially responsible financial services companies. Sign up for the Challenge to Power newsletter and read John's blog at www.challengetopower.com

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