Six church groups have asked Exxon to remove all its operations under concession to the Portuguese government from Guinea Bissau, a west African Portuguese colony.
Nationalists in Guinea Bissau, also called Portuguese Guinea, now have control over three-fourths of the nation after ten years of fighting for independence. The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the independent Guinea Bissau nation, but Portugal continues to hang on to its one-fourth of Guinea Bissau. Exxon has a Portuguese oil exploration contract in Guinea Bissau.
The National Council of Churches of Christ and the United Church of Christ Board for World Ministries have filed a resolution called on Ford Motor Company to issue a report on its operations in the Phillipines, focusing on employment and employee relations policy.
The Glide Foundation has proposed resolutions to Southern California Edison, asking it to disclose its affirmative action plans and the employment information it has filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the last three years.
Joan Cummings, in cooperation with the National Organization of Women, has called on Gulf Oil to report to its shareholders on its equal employment practices.
The American Baptist Home Mission Societies have filed a similar resolution with Polaroid.
Harvard will consider identical equal employment information resolutions directed at General Electric, IBM, Ford, Sears-Roebuck, Xerox and General Motors.
Two groups of nuns have filed a resolution calling on American Electric Power to issue a report to its stockholders on its Appalachian strip-mining activities. The report would include detailed information on finances and on the corporation's efforts to restore land it has mined.
Clergy and Laity Concerned has filed two resolutions with General Electric, asking it to evaluate the environmental and energy impact of each product it considers producing, and to issue an "Energy Impact Statement" later this year.
Several church groups have asked Continental Oil and Kennecott Copper to issue detailed reports on their strip-mining activities in Appalachia and in the American northern plains.
Evelyn Y. Davis has filed resolutions with five corporations--Chase Manhattan Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Ford, J.C. Penney and Xerox--calling on them to publish in newspapers the details of any political contributions they have made in the last fiscal year. Davis also called on General Electric and Ford to affirm their "political nonpartisanship."
The Episcopal Church has filed a resolution with Phillips Petroleum, which made illegal contributions to President Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, to insure that it cannot make any future political contributions.
The Project on Corporate Responsibility has called on five corporations--Union Oil, Gulf, Warner-Lambert, Eastman Kodak and International Telephone and Telegraph--to amend their bylaws to prohibit contributions to political campaigns.