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September 4th, 2004:

The Guardian: The firefighter

The Guardian: The firefighter

“Calpers has emerged as corporate America’s self-styled moral compass.”: Shell is on Calpers’ annual “focus list”, which identifies the biggest problem companies.”

David Teather in Sacramento

Saturday September 4, 2004

Sean Harrigan has made some powerful enemies. As president of Calpers, the largest public pension fund in the United States, he has become a thorn in the side of corporate America, taking on some of its best-known and biggest egos.

Earlier this year the fund locked horns with Michael Eisner, the beleaguered boss of Walt Disney, leading the call for his resignation. Calpers also played a pivotal role in the ousting of former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso as he became embroiled in a bitter dispute over his eye-popping salary. read more

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The unpalatable truth about Shell Management

TELLSHELL: The unpalatable truth about Shell Management

“While the Ogoni people sit on top of oil fields, but remain abysmally poor, Sir Philip Watts sits on an $18 million (US dollar) pension pot. It is in my humble opinion simply obscene and indefensible.”

4 September 04

This message was posted on “TellShell”, the forum for supposed “lively debate” on the website of Shell.com. It was in response to comments posted by “Richard” who stated that “as a bemused onlooker with many years of overseas experience within the Shell Group, I find it hard to accept that Shell management is as corrupt, hypocritical and immoral as you depict, or that the Ogoniland campaigners are all the knights in shining armour that your posts suggest.” He also believes that I have made unfair comparisons between the Statement of General Business Principles and my view of Shell’s actual behaviour. His full comments can be read on TellShell under the topic heading “Our recent performance – what do you think?”. read more

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Thinking big: ‘edu-tainment’

The Times: Thinking big: ‘edu-tainment’

“when activists stage a protest at the home of the Royal Dutch Shell chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, they end up staying for tea.”

September 04, 2004

As Morgan Spurlock challenges a fast food nation, Arwa Haider discovers why he and others are using cinema to make a difference

There’s a revolution happening in our cinemas. No longer are local multiplexes screening only action fantasies and rom-coms, they’re also showing a new breed of documentary film whose aim is to provoke thought, to challenge the way we live, and ultimately to change it.

Michael Moore deserves some credit for getting the ball rolling with Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, which proved that films with a message can make money as well as a political point. But there’s more than Moore out there; this summer, it has been impossible to ignore the buzz surrounding Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock’s startling, humorous fast food documentary, which goes on general release here on Friday. read more

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