Nate Duehr wrote:
> Attend shareholder meetings, never sign away your vote for those by  
> proxy, ask questions.

It doesn't always work. This from the same release:

"
Dissenting investors complained recently in Australia about high pay packages 
for the telecom company Telstra, reported the Australian newspaper on Nov. 7. 
Two-thirds of shareholders' votes at the company's annual general meeting just 
held in Sydney were against the pay arrangements for chief executive Sol 
Trujillo and other senior officials.

In spite of what the article termed "the biggest revolt in the three-year 
history of such votes in Australia," the resolution is not binding, and after 
the meeting, Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie declared the board would ignore 
its shareholders' wishes and would continue to pay executives as previously 
arranged.
"
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