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Besides G.E., companies facing shareholder resolutions dealing with their political activities include EASTMAN KODAK (250,000 shares; April 24), GENERAL MOTORS (275,000 shares; May 25), and IT&T (325,000 shares; May 9). Ralph Nader's Project on Corporate Responsibility is asking all three to issue an annual report on its political contributions, including "brief descriptions of positions communicated between high-level personnel...and high-level officials of the federal government concerning any matter of unusual significance to the corporation." Particularly in view of the continuing furor over IT&T's attempt to buy the Chilean election, Harvard...
...first proxy campaign of them all was Campaign GM, which wanted, among other things, safer cars. Recently, activists have been more interested in the safety of companies' employees, and this year a group of staffers from the UMW's Miners for Democracy and various Ralph Nader groups--with occasional advice from outsiders like Martin Peretz, Master of South House--formed Campaign Continental...
...Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
...committee also discussed Campaign Continental, an organization of old Miners for Democracy and Ralph Nader staffers, which is soliciting proxies from Continental Oil's shareholders, primarily to force disclosure of information on allegedly unsafe conditions in the company's coal mines...
...KRAMER SEEMS to feel guilty. He thinks pious altruists of the Ralph Nader ilk, like the archetypical Jewish Mother, will look at him scoldingly for not working harder to get what he wants. The radicals of five years ago will think he's sold out. Radicals today may not understand his confusion; most current organizers for domestic self-determination movements never really thought of themselves as ascetics. Unfortunately, Kramer doesn't distinguish between the kind of Movement politics that was getting him and most people nowhere in the sixties and the present prospects for constructive Movement politics, in which country...