Corporate Accountability, Mergers, and the Defense of Civil Rights

Corporate leaders are making decisions right now that could determine whether civil rights protections are strengthened, or quietly dismantled behind closed doors.

We cannot allow mergers, regulatory approvals, or political pressure to become tools for erasing commitments to equity and equal opportunity.

Join us in demanding transparency and accountability from corporations and regulators.

Add your name, share this letter, and help us send a clear message: civil rights are not a bargaining chip for corporate growth or political favor.

When corporations retreat from justice, communities must organize.

Across industries, major corporations are quietly retreating from long-standing commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. These decisions are not happening in a vacuum—and they are not neutral business choices.

They are occurring at a moment when corporate mergers, regulatory approvals, and political pressure have converged to create powerful incentives for silence, compliance, and retreat from civil rights values.

We write as civil rights, cultural, labor, and community organizations to make one thing clear:
corporate capitulation to political intimidation, especially when tied to merger approvals or regulatory leverage, undermines democracy, harms workers and consumers, and puts Black, Brown and LGBTQIA+ communities, women, and people with disabilities at risk.

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