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FCC Investigates Disney’s DEI Practices Amid Political Scrutiny
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated an investigation into The Walt Disney Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency's Enforcement Bureau will examine whether Disney and its...
Disney Unchanged on DEI, Trannying Kids; Iger’s Successor Unlikely to Improve Things
Voting shareholders (think asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard and many others) who control outcomes rejected two shareholder proposals endorsed by NLPC at Disney's annual meeting yesterday. One resolution addressed concerns about political and religious...
NLPC Backs Two Shareholder Proposals for Disney Annual Meeting
After three consecutive years in which we were able to get our shareholder proposals on the proxy statement for The Walt Disney Company, which brought significant attention to our calls for accountability regarding the company's business activities in China and its...
UPDATED: Yet Another Fraudulent Corporate DEI ‘Rollback;’ This Time It’s Disney
UPDATE FEB. 13, 2025 9:20 A.M. ET: Pro-DEI websites are affirming that whatever perceived reversals or rollbacks of DEI by corporations are merely changes in terminology, not practice. From Sustainability Magazine: While Disney has removed mentions of certain DEI...
Bob Iger Comes to Rescue Disney from …. Bob Iger
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times published a piece that tried to explain the depoliticization shift by Disney away from pro-LGBTQ/-transgenderism and other DEI messaging in its children's programming and theatrical releases. From the article: Bob Iger wants out of the...
#WINNING: Disney Yanks Transgender Storyline from Kids’ Streaming Series
According to an article yesterday published by The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has removed a plot line from one of its kid-targeted streaming series, which had centered on a character described as transgender: Pixar’s original animated series Win or Lose will no longer...
Disney’s Board Applies Final Polish to Iger’s Ego w/ NYC HQ Honor
The Walt Disney Company revealed this week its New York City-based headquarters, and that it will be named the Robert A. Iger building, a fitting ode to a guy who won't leave, can't bring himself to leave, doesn't know how to leave, can't think of anyone who could run...
#WeToldYouSo: Dysfunctional Disney Board Even Worse than We Thought
As shareholders in The Walt Disney Company, NLPC in March 2023 called for the removal and replacement of the entire board of directors. Our reasons for doing so were explained in great detail in a 27-page white paper filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,...
The ONLY Non-Woke Member of Disney’s Board is OUT
Late last week The Walt Disney Company announced that director Safra Catz, who is CEO of Oracle, is leaving as a member of its board. From Variety: Disney and Catz did not provide an explanation for why she stepped down from the Mouse House’s board. With Catz’s...
WATCH: NLPC & Do No Harm Call Out Disney Over Gender Ideology
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Gender-Based Compensation Gaps and Associated Risks” proposal at The Walt Disney Company‘s annual shareholder meeting, which would require the company to investigate its employee pay and benefits policies to...
DAILY MAIL: Chloe Cole to Challenge Disney Over ‘Destructive Gender Ideology’
On Wednesday, Chloe Cole (pictured above), patient advocate for medical accountability activist group Do No Harm, will present NLPC's shareholder proposal at the annual meeting for The Walt Disney Company. DailyMail.com previewed the event in an article published...
NLPC in NYPost: Disney Won’t Help Detransitioners
NLPC's Paul Chesser, director of the Corporate Integrity Project, has a piece on the opinion page of the New York Post today which explains our shareholder proposal for The Walt Disney Company, which calls upon the company to provide equitable health insurance...
VIDEO: NLPC to Confront Disney Over Gender Ideology at Annual Meeting
https://twitter.com/NLPC/status/1773039199492489238 NLPC will present a shareholder proposal on Wednesday, April 3 at the annual meeting for The Walt Disney Company, which will confront the entertainment giant about its discriminatory compensation policies that...
DAILY CALLER: Disney Board Wants to Avoid Accountability on ‘Gender Affirming’ Care
In an article published on Friday, The Daily Caller reported about NLPC's shareholder proposal that will be up for a vote at the Disney annual meeting on April 3. From the story: In Disney’s 2024 “Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement,” Disney...
Peltz Picks Incumbents That He Wants Bounced from Disney’s Board
Last year activist investor Nelson Peltz started, then quickly and abruptly ended, a campaign to win himself a seat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. At last year's annual meeting for the company, National Legal and Policy Center, a shareholder in the...
WE TOLD YOU SO: Blame Disney’s Board for Iger, Chapek Disaster
So now we have two defining, insider-sourced articles about the backstory behind the failed succession at The Walt Disney Company from former (and now current, again) CEO Robert Iger (pictured above) to, and from, successor/predecessor Robert Chapek. The first came in...
Nelson Peltz Should Have Kept Fighting for Disney Board Seat
Early this year activist investor Nelson Peltz (pictured above) and his Trian Fund Management took a big stake in The Walt Disney Company, and demanded a seat on the board of directors, accompanied by a threat to run a competitive campaign at the annual meeting in...
Bob Iger Has a Domestic Disturbance at His (Mouse) House
There is a lot of attention on The Walt Disney Company these days, and quarterly earnings reports draw greater scrutiny than (perhaps) ever, considering the political and "woke" crosswinds --- amid profitability and stock price stumbles --- that the formerly...
Instead of Going Away, Woke Bob Iger Will Stay Longer at Disney
The formerly "retired" CEO who just won't go away, whose attitude and backstabbing leave some observers with the impression that he thinks he is irreplaceable, just extended his contract an additional two years, until December 2026. That would be Robert Iger, CEO of...
NLPC: Disney Board Presided Over Last Year’s Disaster and Does Not Deserve Re-election
National Legal and Policy Center, a shareholder in The Walt Disney Company, is calling upon investors in the company to take the extreme step of voting to oppose the entire slate of nominees for the board of directors, all of whom are carryovers that presided over the...
NLPC in FoxBusiness: Did ‘Woke’ Cause Disney to Boot CEO Bob Chapek?
Writing last night for FoxBusiness.com, reporter Breck Dumas interviewed Paul Chesser, director of NLPC's Corporate Integrity Project, about the sudden replacement of Disney CEO Bob Chapek (pictured above) with returning former chairman Robert Iger . From the article:...
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