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Shareholder Proposal to Amazon: Disclose Lobbying Expenses

In response to reports of elevated levels of lobbying activity and spending by Amazon both at home and abroad – including $1.5 million spent to influence Seattle city council elections – Newground Social Investment filed a shareholder proposal for a vote of all shareholders in 2020. The proposal calls for broad public disclosure of the company's lobbying expenditures, and will be voted on at Amazon's annual shareholder meeting, which will take place in late May or early June. We urge shareholders to vote FOR an expansion of Amazon's lobbying disclosure.

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Over 50,000 Sign Petition Opposing SEC's Effort to Silence Shareholder Voices

A few days after SEC Chair Jay Clayton introduced proposed rule changes that would drastically curtail the rights of investors to file shareholder proposals on important environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns, CREDO Action, the advocacy arm of CREDO Mobile, posted an online petition opposing the new rules. The petition garnered 50,461 supporters, by far the largest public statement of opposition to this SEC action from any group.

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Unfair Voting at Amazon

Amazon's proxy engages in Formula Swapping – it uses a favorable vote-counting formula for management's board election, but a more repressive formula to count shareholder proposals. This inconsistent treatment disproportionately benefits management while depressing the tally on shareholder items. This puts stockholders at risk, and reflects the faulty logic that a Company can divine voter intent.

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