{"id":4945,"date":"2010-08-17T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:57:15","slug":"dailymove-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/dailymove-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Target under fire over political donations and GLBT rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/shop\/navigator.php?sector=10&amp;company=402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4946\" title=\"100817_target\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100817_target.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Several US newspapers and blogs comment on current protests against Target over its recent political donation to a Republican politician known to be critical of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Campaign has asked that the US retailer contribute an equal amount to candidates who support gay-friendly causes. On Monday the company said it will not respond positively to this demand for the time being. There have been protests outside Target stores. On Facebook a Boycott Target page has more than 60\u2019000 fans; there\u2019s also an anti-boycott page with 18\u2019000 fans.<\/p>\n<p>More on Target:<em> <\/em><a title=\"https:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/shop\/navigator.php?sector=20&amp;company=336\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/shop\/navigator.php?sector=10&amp;company=402\">Ethical Snapshots<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/products\/services\/live-ethicalquote\/\">Live EthicalQuote<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/products\/services\/research\/company-reports\/\">Company Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Move by Covalence EthicalQuote. The Daily Move comments on the change of the day in Covalence EthicalQuote ethical reputation scoring system and CSR news database.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Want to receive free daily updates by email? <a title=\"Subscribe to Covalence Daily Move\" href=\"mailto:info@ethicalquote.com\">Subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several US newspapers and blogs comment on current protests against Target over its recent political donation to a Republican politician known to be critical of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender rights. The Human Rights Campaign has asked that the US retailer contribute an equal amount to candidates who support gay-friendly causes. On Monday the company&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-target","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}