Shareholders in ConocoPhillips (COP) have submitted some excellent proposals for today’s shareholder meeting in Dallas, beginning with the proposal quoted at length on recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples.

In the interest of full disclosure: On my mother’s behalf, I have voted our family’s (modest) block of shares in favor of the proposals listed below, all of them formally opposed by company management. The number of shares involved will not change company history. I am confident that I am voting as my parents would have wished, but other shareholders less influenced by family considerations would do well to support ...   more »