Among corporate America's most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City.
Amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St Scholastica have taken on the likes of Google, Target and Citigroup - calling on major companies to do everything from AI oversight to measuring pesticides to respecting the rights of Indigenous people."Some of these companies, they just really hate us," said Sister Barbara McCracken, who leads the nuns' corporate responsibility program.
"Because we're small, we're just like a little fly in the ointment trying to irritate them."
At a time when activist investing has become politically polarised, these nuns are no strangers to making a statement.
Recently they went viral for denouncing the commencement speech of American football team the Kansas City Chief's kicker Harrison Butker at the nearby college they cofounded. When Butker suggested the women graduates of Benedictine College would most cherish their roles as wives and mothers, the nuns – who are noticeably neither wives nor mothers – expressed concern with "the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman." more of this - Euro News Green - link - more like this (activism) - link
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