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limpyhobbler

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3. A neat spin in socially conscious investing.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 10:10 AM

Apr 2012

Instead of pulling money out of companies as a protest, buy stock to get into shareholders meetings. If enough people do it like in this case where they apparently had 100, it's a pretty big protest. They drew the company into a situation of having to lock out some of their own sharreholders, making this banking company look like a scumbag authoritarian institution in the eyes of neutral observers including other investors. Getting them to show their true colors.

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That's primo lawyer-bait, right there. Jester Messiah Apr 2012 #2

A neat spin in socially conscious investing. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #3

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I'm against co-option. But it's BullShit to think xchrom Apr 2012 #9

I'm pretty sure that is illegal. n/t ellisonz Apr 2012 #10

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