Patriot Financial Group: Dump Playboy shares
Porn investment violates Ethics commitments
Boston based investment firm Patriot Financial Group is the latest Playboy shareholder in our sights. While other shareholders are dropping Playboy like hot coals, Patriot is actually bolstering its stake in the global sexploitation empire.
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Dump your strip shares - our call to Thrivent
US-based investment firm Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has quietly sold off nearly 10,000 shares - nearly a million dollars worth - in strip club company RCI Hospitality Holdings (NASDAQ: $RICK) after Collective Shout campaigner and CSR advisor Lyn Swanson Kennedy called on them to divest.
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We expose Playboy profiteers
In recent years Playboy has promoted itself as a good corporate citizen which ‘values equality’ and ‘advocates for civil rights’.
These claims are at odds with Playboy’s corporate activities which - true to its sexploitative roots - continue to objectify women and sexualise children.
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