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[ [link removed] ]A photo montage of an Apple laptop sitting atop a stack of US currency.

John,

We’ve been so successful using shareholder action to get companies to
change bad behaviour that hardline Republicans in the US are bending over
backwards to shut down programs like ours!

A couple years ago, we got Apple to publish its first-ever human rights
policy…and last year, to reveal previously secretive information about its
supply chain. Shareholder pressure works. So Republicans are responding by
trying to ban big investors from even considering human rights or climate
change in their investment decisions!

They’re trying to make it impossible for shareholders to make companies
behave better. But, John, we can still fight back.

If 5000 people reading this email chip in just a little, Ekō can buy more
shares in Apple – plus other Big Tech and even climate-wrecking Big Oil
companies – to keep up the pressure on the worst corporate execs, no
matter what Republicans do.

Everything you give will be used to generate matching donations from big
donors – can you join in to keep shareholder activism alive?



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This isn’t our first shareholder appeal. With the help of generous members
of the Ekō community, Ekō has bought shares in companies like Apple and
Microsoft already, and filed or worked with other shareholders to file
more than 10 resolutions in the last year. Together we can do more, buying
enough shares to have a seat at the table fighting for everything from
climate to workers rights to regulation of toxic lies on social media.

Republicans and their big-money donors are terrified of programs like
ours. They see that shareholder power could force corporations to think
about something other than how much profit they can pocket, with no regard
for people or planet. So they are doing everything they can to scare big
shareholders out of working with groups like us, and to make it harder to
file our powerful resolutions.

That’s why we need to push ahead now more than ever. If these Trump/MAGA
Republicans get their way, we will lose a critical tool for holding
corporations to account. We need to fight back against these extremist
politicians who think corporations protecting people and planet is “woke”.

John, can you help us buy shares in more companies to ensure
we keep a seat at the table – and keep shareholder activism alive?



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Danny and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Apple commits to freedom of information and expression in human rights
policy, Reuters, 4 September 2020.

[ [link removed] ]The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility, Vox,
10 December 2022.

[ [link removed] ]House Republicans want to change the way shareholder meetings work.
Here's how., Yahoo Finance, 15 July 2023.

 

Anything extra raised will power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting
for people and the planet.

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

Please help keep Ekō strong by chipping in $3. [link removed]