Nuns Who Won’t Stop Nudging - Sisters of St. Francis, the Quiet Shareholder Activists

[groovedaddy]

NOT long ago, an unusual visitor arrived at the sleek headquarters of Goldman Sachs in Lower Manhattan.

It wasn’t some C.E.O., or a pol from Athens or Washington, or even a sign-waving occupier from Zuccotti Park.

It was Sister Nora Nash of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. And the slight, soft-spoken nun had a few not-so-humble suggestions for the world’s most powerful investment bank.

Way up on the 41st floor, in a conference room overlooking the World Trade Center site, Sister Nora and her team from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility laid out their advice for three Goldman executives. The Wall Street bank, they said, should protect consumers, rein in executive pay, increase its transparency and remember the poor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/business/sisters-of-st-francis-the-quiet-shareholder-activists.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share

[xchrom]

1. Way to go sister Nora! Nt

[patrice]

2. One of the Sisters of Loretto, Sr. Pat Conoyer, marched with OccupyKC in one of

Kansas City's poorest neighborhoods, North-East.

It was a noisy happy march, 400-500 ppl, & we invited NE residents to rise up and join our movement.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Good luck with that Sister. I think they will dismiss you unless you get

some real old fashioned nuns who used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[MgtPA]

4. When they got rid of the habits, they lost a lot of that ability.

My 1st grade nun looked exactly like this:


Now, the older ones look like someone's grandmother, albeit a bit crankier.

[formercia]

5. The Nuns got rid of those Nasty Habits.

Mother Superior was a real Witch. She would even read my mail, and if I wrote something she didn't like...lookout.

[yellowcanine]

6. "Nuns Who Won’t Stop Nudging" - a really bad name for a rock band.

Almost as bad as the "Electric Shoes" - the band Kevin Arnold's band in "The Wonder Years"

[saras]

7. It's a better name for a lost Monty Python skit