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Bill Baue speaks with Eric Reeves, professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and host of SudanReeves.org, about the campaign he helped initiate to divest from international companies doing business with the genocidal regime in Sudan.
Peter Kinder, founding president of socially responsible investing research firm KLD Research & Analytics, compares and contrasts Sudan divestment with South Africa divestment, and KLD research expert on Sudan Claire Moroni discusses KLD’s new Sudan Divestment Tool modeled on the Illinois State divestment legislation.
Guests Marjorie Kelly and Allen White go into more depth on their efforts in Corporation2020 to redesign the corporation. They discuss the need to realign the purpose of the corporation so that it does not undermine societal well-being, and how to ensure that corporations do not undermine human rights — ending the fiction of “corporate personhood” that has enabled corporations to undermine politics and public policy. The show also includes recent success stories in Humboldt County, CA and Franklin County, PA.
Leslie Lowe, director of the Energy and Environment program for the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of 275 faith-based institutional investors with more than $110 billion in assets whose members filed 3 shareholder resolutions this year at Chevron related directly or indirectly to the Ecuador environmental and human rights problems. Ms. Lowe visited the affected regions in March of this year as a member of a delegation of Chevron shareholders–including the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS–the largest US pension fund) on a fact-finding mission.