New York Times (August 28)
“The Milwaukee Bucks set off a fast-moving wave of protest in professional sports when they refused to play their scheduled playoff game…. The rest of the league quickly joined the strike.” The ripple soon spread to “postponements of games in the W.N.B.A., Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer.” The players “have delivered a message that the entire country needs to hear: When it comes to social justice, it’s better to think and act like a team.”
Tags: Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Bucks, NHL, Playoff game, Postponements, Professional sports, Protest, Soccer, Social justice, W.N.B.A.
Washington Post (July 7)
“As the nation faces a pandemic, financial catastrophe and massive social justice protests, it is suddenly also confronting a spike in violence in some of its major cities. Tragedies struck in urban centers thousands of miles apart, with 65 people shot over the weekend in New York and 87 in Chicago, and homicides climbing from Miami to Milwaukee.” Shootings often rise in summer, but “the recent toll has been particularly devastating.”
Tags: Chicago, Cities, Confronting, Financial catastrophe, Homicides, Miami, Milwaukee, New York, Pandemic, Protests, Shootings, Social justice, Tragedies, Violence
The Economist (October 27)
“Blind adherence to ESG criteria… could skew capital flows towards the most privileged parts of the world. That would make it harder for poorer economies to escape poverty—a failure that could, in turn, inhibit their progress on green, governance and social-justice matters.” For this reason, Charlie Robertson and others are arguing that “ethical investors should instead adopt a kind of economic relativism, judging countries relative to their GDP per person.”
Tags: Capital flows, Economic relativism, Economies, ESG, GDP, Governance, Green, Poverty, Privileged, Robertson, Social justice
New York Times (July 1)
“Sometimes the bottom line matches the common good.” In the U.S., corporations are increasingly taking the lead as “agents of what’s practical, wise and even right.” The companies are interested in ensuring “that laws and local customs don’t prevent them from attracting and retaining the best work force” as they seek to strengthen their brands. These self-interested efforts “have produced compelling recent examples of companies showing greater sensitivity to diversity, social justice and the changing tides of public sentiment than lawmakers often manage to.”
Tags: Bottom line, Common good, Corporations, Diversity, Lawmakers, Laws, Right, Social justice, U.S., Work force
