by Harrington Investments | Jul 8, 2014
Over the past year there has been a sudden flurry of U.S. companies taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes by reincorporating overseas. Called “inversion”, large companies such as Pfizer and Omnicom Group have already...
by Harrington Investments | Jun 24, 2014
The US Chamber of Commerce calls it “minoritarianism, the tyranny of a minority”. Dan Gallagher of the Securities and Exchange Commission says annual meetings have been “hijacked” by “corporate gadflies”. Leo Strine, the chief justice of Delaware, where most big US...
by Harrington Investments | Jun 16, 2014
There has been lots of controversy over the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to sell off dozens of post office properties across the country by a real estate firm chaired by the husband of the Senior U.S. Senator from California, presumably to raise money to save the...
by Harrington Investments | May 30, 2014
Dear Editor, I am bursting with pride and admiration that the Wall Street Journal’s May 23, 2014 editorial “Good News in the Proxy Wars” clearly and unequivocally defended the right of large, defenseless and badly treated corporations to continue to refuse to disclose...
by Harrington Investments | May 28, 2014
Almost four years ago, I wrote about a new non-profit check cashing and payday lender that opened in the Fruitvale area of Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. This alternative to private sector financial parasites, for-profit check cashers and payday...
by Harrington Investments | May 28, 2014
It lights up my natural life that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has once again proven itself to be above human beings, shareholders and other stakeholders in our society by proposing to destroy owners’ free speech and protect the rights of authoritarian corporate...
by Harrington Investments | Mar 20, 2014
Harrington Investments Shareholder Resolution on Human Rights As an owner of Hewlett Packard stock, we are concerned that our company’s cooperation with foreign governments to monitor their citizens will result in expensive legal challenges to our firm and lead...
by Harrington Investments | Mar 14, 2014
John Harrington calls on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop pretending he can’t do anything about the rise in the use of toxic, cancer-causing and environment-wrecking pesticides. It’s time the USDA stood up to the million-dollar Big AG/GMO lobbyists in DC and takes...
by Harrington Investments | Feb 20, 2014
Combating Human Rights Abuses in the Production of Company Products Role of the Board The Board oversees the Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”) and other senior management in the competent and ethical operation of the Corporation on a day-to-day basis and assures...
by Harrington Investments | Jan 23, 2014
For more than thirty years, Harrington Investments, Inc (HII) has been challenging corporate power, and 2014 promises to be one of the most important years yet, targeting 18 different corporations with shareholder resolutions. Interesting and new this year, Harrington...
