CERES - Investor coalitions challenging securities law

Ceres is a coalition of over 80 investor, environmental and public interest organizations united to advance corporate responsibility.

I had never heard of them but I find it pretty cool that there is a coalition this big of responsible investors that is focused on changing securities laws and pushing corporations towards being responsible:

The institutional/financial professional sign-on statement at www.SaveShareholderRights.org spells out specific concerns: "The SEC has issued three specific proposals which we believe would eliminate or cripple the resolution process. We cannot support the following proposals: (1) the 'opt-out' option that would allow the most unresponsive companies -- those with the worst records when it comes to good corporate conduct and governance -- to drop out of the shareholder resolution process and isolate themselves further from their shareholders; (2) the unilateral substitution of the electronic petition model or 'chat room' for the vibrant and public 14a-8 shareholder resolution process; and (3) the raising of shareholder resolution resubmission levels from the current 3%, 6% and 10% vote levels to 10%, 15% and 20% levels, thus effectively killing many important shareholder resolutions."
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The Social Investment Forum (http://www.socialinvest.org) is the national membership association for the social investment industry. It is dedicated to the concept, practice, and growth of socially responsible investing. The Forum's 500-plus members include financial planners, banks, mutual fund companies, research companies, foundations, and community investing institutions.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (http://www.iccr.org) is a coalition of nearly 300 faith-based institutional investors, representing over $100 billion in invested capital. ICCR members bridge the divide between morality and markets by envisioning a civic economy that integrates ethical, environmental and social values. Inspired by faith, committed to action, ICCR members work to build a just and sustainable global community.

Ceres is a leading coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change. Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, a network of 60 institutional investors managing $4 trillion in assets focused on the business impacts of climate change. For more information, visit http://www.ceres.org

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I like the free aspect of this directory:

Dog Poop

Vancouver is onto something...
Instead of picking up each chunk with a plastic bag, why not compost it

Birth

Despite ongoing rumours of my pregnancy, I am not in fact pregant, rather just bloated. Thanks for well wishers on facebook and real life. Superbad this Friday at

Rideau Centre
Superbad
1hr 53min - Comedy - English - IMDb
6:50

This should position us well for half price food at the Marche / Richtree in Rideau center after the movie. Patty Boland's afterwards until a reasonable hour...

If you really love me check this out: Universities selling out? Literally/Structurally?

Maher Arar - Even more vindication

Torture, Maher Arar, inefficiency of the Canadian government - American Government...Do you feel safe?

Trust them they have access to secret information. And they will censor the information from the public to protect us:

This is just embarrassing. Why censor this? From the perspective of Canada there is no motivation. The only people that could benefit from such censorship are those who fucked up and let Maher Arar be tortured.

Globe and Mail Interactive

In September 2002, the RCMP filed an application for a Telephone Warrant. In the application, the RCMP referred to Mr. El Maati’s confession to the Syrians that he undertook pilot training at the request of his brother and that he accepted a mission to be a suicide bomber by exploding a truck bomb on Parliament Hill. After learning of his confession, the RCMP was advised that Mr. El Maati stated that any previous statements he made to the Syrians were made under extreme coercion. Regardless of this, the RCMP stated that its investigation had corroborated much of the information in the El Maati confession.
In the application, the RCMP stated that the information concerning the El Maati confession “is still accurate and continues to be true.” In regard to Mr. El Maati’s public statement to DFAIT that his confession to the Syrians was the product of torture, the RCMP affiant stated in the application that he doesn’t know about the justice system in Middle Eastern countries but he advised that much of the information in the confession was corroborated. He also would not comment on whether Mr. El Maati was tortured into giving his confession but he noted that DFAIT observed that when he was interviewed he appeared to be in good physical condition. There were no DFAIT notations made about marks, scars, bruises, etc. He stated that at this time he could only surmise that Mr. El Maati told the truth and his recantation was an attempt to now “damage control”.
The RCMP did not give the following information to the presiding judge:
(i) the human rights record of Syria;
(ii) the public record that the Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) was known to torture detainees in order to get information while the detainees are held in communicado at the Palestine Branch. At the material time, Mr. El Maati was held in communicado at the Palestine Branch by the SMI;
(iii) when reference was made that Mr. El Maati appeared to be in good physical condition by DFAIT, DFAIT observed Mr. El Maati in August 2002 while the “confession” given to the SMI was in November 2001, nine months earlier.

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This must have been helpful to Justice O'Connor:
Note the blacked out portionsssssssss

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Thanks again to Lorne Waldman one of Maher Arar's lawyers. Here is a paper I wrote for his class with three friends on Redress for Torture

Should I switch to word press?

I don't know let's try a trackback to another site

A rant about wilderness and its meanings