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Seeger: A 'Power' in music, politics
For more than half a century, Pete Seeger has been an icon's icon, a source of inspiration to rock stars and socially conscious artists of all stripes. But don't try to tell him that. "I'm 88 years old, losing my sight and my hearing," Seeger says....
Tags: activism, music, PBS, Singer, TVs
Research articles 2008-02-27
An alternative vision of librarianship: James Danky and the sociocultural politics of collection development
ABSTRACT The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-development practices. Danky's belief in the value of alternative periodicals--and the lengths that he went to identify and acquire them--may be interpreted as a rejection of increasingly mechanical...
Tags: Activism, American Library Association, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Katz, librarian, M., Schwartz, vision
Research articles 2008-01-01
Corporate Governance and the New Hedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis
Hedge funds are not "normal" institutional investors. They launch proxy fights for corporate control. Their recent successes and "wolf pack" tactics have garnered headlines, but leave us with a question: what does hedge fund activism mean for corporate governance in the United States? This Article undertakes a legal, empirical, and...
Tags: activism, activist, analysis, board, director, FINANCE, Investment, investor, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2007-07-01
Shareholder activism: is it here to stay?
Byline: Tony Cole Jun 21, 2007 (Keeping Good Companies - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian superannuation funds have a lot to gain from shareholder activism. Activism takes resources, so in order for super funds to remain within the confines of the "sole purpose" rule,...
Tags: activism, CalPERS, FINANCE, shareholder
Research articles 2007-06-21
Letters
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM? Ginsburg's dissent followed letter of the law Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires persons who wish to file suit for sexual discrimination in the workplace to file a charge with the EEOC within 180 days "after the alleged...
Tags: activism, Construction, Iraq, troop, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-06-09
An unusual suspect: often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals
Dr. Wang Zheng wastes no words when it comes to discussing the person she most admires, a 91-year-old Chinese-American revolutionary activist whose life's work Wang includes in her University of Michigan courses. Wang says she knew very little about Dr. Grace Lee Boggs before the latter participated in an...
Tags: activism, activist, Detroit, Dr., professor, University of Michigan
Research articles 2007-04-19
Work begins on David Brower building
BERKELEY -- To some, it might seem ironic that a multimillion- dollar building complex -- not a park or a mountain -- will memorialize one of the country's foremost environmental leaders, David Brower. But like Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and a leader in...
Tags: activism, FINANCE, Investment, Leadership, Sierra Club
Research articles 2007-04-06
Work begins on Berkeley's Brower building
BERKELEY -- To some, it might seem ironic that a multimillion- dollar building complex -- not a park or a mountain -- will memorialize one of the country's foremost environmental leaders, David Brower. But like Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and a leader in...
Tags: activism, FINANCE, Investment, Leadership, Sierra Club
Research articles 2007-04-04
Critic's corner
*Well, here we are: another season finale of Prison Break (Fox, tonight, 8 ET/PT), and Michael Wentworth Miller is racing against yet another clock to rescue his brother. Say this for Michael: He's loyal, if not exactly competent. *PBS' American Experience examines one of our country's...
Tags: ABC Inc., activism, celebrity, evangelist, VH1
Research articles 2007-04-02
World Jewish Congress on Death of MK Yuri Shtern
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Shai Franklin of World Jewish Congress, +1-212-755-5770 NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Yuri Shtern, a Member of Knesset and a leader of the Jewish people. In over 30 years of community and political activism -- in the Soviet...
Tags: activism, Israel, leader, Leadership, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-01-18
Consultants have to adapt to a brave new world.
Byline: Leon Gettler Oct 25, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Companies have to consult with all stakeholders in the changing world. Ann Svendsen, of Simon Fraser University in Canada, sees the new process as the "co-creative" stakeholder engagement model. ...
Tags: accountability, activism, FINANCE, Leadership, Simon Fraser University
Research articles 2006-10-25
A Very Busy Season for Shareholder Activists
It is shaping up as a very busy season for shareholder activism, in part because of investor disgust with the lack of management oversight of lending practices that led to the current sub prime and credit crisis. So far this year, shareholders have put forward 1,106 proposals...
Tags: Shareholder, Board, Activism, Shareholder Activist, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-04-25
Amanda Congdon Videoblogs Across America ; AmandaAcrossAmerica.ComWill Feature Interviews, Blogging, Video Highlighting Citizen Mediaand Environmental Activism
To: National DeskContact: Adam J. Segal, 202-756-2252, 202-422-4673 cell, adam@the2050group.comor Lisa Harrison, 310-248-3049, both for Amanda CongdonWASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Actress and pioneering videoblogger Amanda Congdon announced her latest project, AmandaAcrossAmerica.com, where she and a group of friends will travel across country to her new home in Los...
Tags: activism, blogging, Ford Motor Co., MARKETING, TV, video
Research articles 2006-09-26
Lance Bass in sync with 'Racer' Reichen
Former 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, 27, has announced that he is gay and in a "very stable" relationship with The Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32. The former boy-band star knew "from childhood on" that he was gay, he tells People magazine, which arrives on stands Friday. After...
Tags: activism, Air Force
Research articles 2006-07-27
Politics of Criminal Justice: How the New Right Regime Shaped the Rehnquist Court's Criminal Justice Jurisprudence, The
INTRODUCTION In 1968, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon pledged to appoint conservative, strict constructionist judges to the federal courts.1 In the view of many New Right Republicans, the Warren Court had formed an activist partnership with liberal Democrats to liberalize broad swaths of American social policy.2 They were not wrong;...
Tags: activism, Bush, Democrat, Democratic Party, Johnson, punishment, Republican
Research articles 2006-06-01
UC Davis Graduate School of Management Study Finds Institutional Activism Improves Shareholder Value, Despite Occasional Missteps
DAVIS, Calif. -- The institutional activism practiced by the nation's largest public pension fund -- the California Public Employees' Retirement System -- can create billions of dollars in wealth for investors while expanding shareholder rights, according to a new study by a finance professor at the University of California, Davis....
Tags: activism, Benefits, CalPERS, FINANCE, shareholder
Research articles 2006-04-18
Memoirs
Memoirs; by Ahmed Kathrada. Forewords by Nelson Mandela and Arthur Chaskalson. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2004. xxiv, 400pp. ISBN: 1-86872-918-4. R189.95.If one wants to trace the 1940-1963 period of Johannesburg based Indian South African political activism against White domination and its policy of Apartheid there is no better place to...
Tags: activism, Flat, memoir, Nelson
Research articles 2006-04-01
Right, left target 'judicial activism'
There's one see loser in the upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee to consider Samuel Alito's elevation to the Supreme Court: "judicial activism." Interested parties work tirelessly to convince the Senate to confirm or reject a nominee they believe will help or hinder their ideological agendas (pro-choice vs. pro-life, civil liberties...
Tags: activism, activist, aide, Government, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-01-06
R-and-B star Mary Blige to play Nina Simone on the big screen
LOS ANGELES AFP — Top US rhythm and blues star Mary J. Blige will reportedly play Nina Simone in a biopic of the late jazz-blues diva. According to the Hollywood Reporter the film will retrace the stormy career of Simone, famous for the bluesy "My Baby Just Cares For...
Tags: activism, Agence France-Presse, CAREER
Research articles 2005-12-05
Kramer, Larry
KRAMER, Larry KRAMER, Larry (b. 25 June 1935), activist, screenwriter, dramatist. Larry Kramer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of George Leon Kramer and Rea Sara Wishengrad. When he was eight years old, Kramer went to the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., to see a puppet play,...
Tags: activism, activist, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Kramer, SOFTWARE, theater, Yale University
Research articles 2005-10-25
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