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Most individual shareholders do not realize that if they own as little as $2,000 worth of stock in a corporation they can challenge its destructive practices just like big institutional investors do. Andy Behar provides an accessible handbook that shows exactly how it's done. Corporations are the most powerful entities on the planet. Unfortunately, many have had a long record of unprecedented and unbridled environmental degradation, social transgressions, and governance secrecy. Since by law they are beholden to their shareholders, some philanthropic trusts, pension funds, and other institutional investors have used shareholder advocacy to press for changes in corporate policy. But individual investors have largely been silent, thinking themselves powerless. They're not! The Shareholder Action Guide is designed to inform, inspire, and instruct investors in how to exercise their power to effect meaningful change on critical issues including climate change, food toxicity, executive compensation, worker's rights, sustainability, and much more. Owners of as little as $2,000 worth of stock in a publicly traded corporation have the power to be heard. This book is a call to action designed to build a movement of active investors. Behar shows investors exactly how to stop abdicating their power and ""own what they own.""

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Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. Founded in 1992, As You Sow envisions a safe, just, and sustainable world in which environmental health and human rights are central to corporate decision making. Wes Bleed is a professional motivational speaker, as well as the vice president of Mack Commincations, a public affairs and public relations firm based in the Chicago area. For more than twenty-five years, he worked as a contributing reporter for the ABC Radio network, as well as a new anchor and news director. He received his bachelor's degree in speech communication from Wheaton College. Wes Bleed is a professional motivational speaker, as well as the vice president of Mack Commincations, a public affairs and public relations firm based in the Chicago area. For more than twenty-five years, he worked as a contributing reporter for the ABC Radio network, as well as a new anchor and news director. He received his bachelor's degree in speech communication from Wheaton College.

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