Sentences with phrase «by an activist from»

In essence, the Green Party platform this year is a list of the demands of the social movements right now, and has been shaped by activists from those movements.

April 7, 2018 • A new rights movement is led by an activist from South Waziristan, a front line in the war on terrorism.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

What: On Thursday, November 9th, community and grassroots leaders from the United States who make up the «U.S. People's Delegation», joined by activists from the Pacific Islands known as the Pacific Climate Warriors and Germany's Ende Gelende activists, will participate in a speak out and share personal stories of how their communities are being impacted by unjust policies, governmental unaccountability, the fossil fuel industry, and ever - present climate disasters.

Her brazen tweet went viral and is now seen on T - shirts and signs during events organized by activists from the Never Again movement.

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Huntsman abandoned its $ 20 billion merger with Clariant under pressure from activist investors led by Keith Meister's Corvex (through a vehicle called «White Tale»).

By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

The video includes a cover of «Pure Imagination» from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory sung by animal rights activist and musician Fiona Apple.

Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

Tenet Healthcare, under pressure from an activist investor, said on Tuesday it would explore a sale of its Conifer unit, and increase the size of its plan to cut costs by $ 100 million by the end of 2018.

Apple and Amazon were pressured by activists to stop streaming content from the National Rifle Association through the organization's NRAtv channel.

Following demands from high - profile, activist investor Carl Icahn, fast - growing payments business PayPal will be a standalone company by mid next year.

The company responded to complaints by meeting with Oakland activist group Neighbors for Racial Justice, and CEO Nirav Tolia said feedback from those meetings was incorporated into a new model for the site's crime and suspicious activity reporting feature.

Kinder Morgan Canada says it will walk away from the project on May 31 unless Ottawa acts to end the uncertainty over the project, which is also opposed by environmentalists and aboriginal activists.

In the summer of 2015, the activist hedge fund founded by Paul Singer had gone to war in the Republic of Samsung to stop the South Korean conglomerate from going through with what Singer considered to be an unfair deal.

We dive into everything from the Aztec origins of their names, to the influence of thier creative, activist, entrepreneurial parents, to running a successful Kickstarter and later raising money from Backstage Capital, to their ambitious vision to influence culture by creating musical tools to bridge the gap between instrumentalists and electronic music.

Major clients like Unilever and Procter & Gamble Co. have been cutting marketing costs under pressure from activist investors, while companies disrupted by new technologies have been shaving their advertising budgets.

We've seen litigation by coastal communities, railway activists, tribal communities, and even conservatives who claim our state is not for the explotative profit by companies from outside our state.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

Buoyed by #MeToo activists, California lawmakers are mounting a push to prevent businesses from forcing...

Rent - A-Center Inc (NASDAQ: RCII) has been under pressure from activist investors to explore a sale, and said in early April it plans on reaching a decision by the second quarter.

Even after apologizing to anti-gun activist David Hogg, the corporate media and the organized left, with a lot of help from gutless corporations, are still determined to dismantle Ingraham's entire professional life — to shut a conservative woman up by removing her platform, all because she accused a teenager of «whining.»

In a lengthy profile by Texas Monthly, he says that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was eager to court his business when Whole Foods first came under pressure from an activist investor to look for a takeover.

Written by Tobias Carlisle — an active value investor and the well - known blogger at greenbackd.com — this important resource describes the evolution of the various theories of intrinsic value and activist investment from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett to Carl Icahn and beyond.

Parkland activists brandished orange tags with $ 1.05, the amount of money Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has accepted from the NRA divided by every student in Florida — the price of each student's life, activists said.

Signed by the leading deal lawyer Martin Lipton and seven other Wachtell partners, the memo proposes that company boards consider adopting a bylaw prohibiting shareholder activists from compensating director nominees.

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

«We don't want to be that person who rushes past someone bleeding by the side of the road on our way to a protest rally,» says Bessenecker, who is an activist and author of Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions From the Christian Industrial Complex.

Writing on his website, Scott Lively said that «pressure and harassment by LGBT activists», was the reason it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual back in 1973, but called for it to be put back in.

That irony notwithstanding, antiwar activist John McConnell, having seen the pictures taken by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders from the command module windows of Apollo VIII, created the «Earth Day flag» from one of those photos and in 1969 proposed a global holiday in celebration of the earth to a UNESCO conference being held in San Francisco.

Their rebellion has been fueled not by the tape - recorded sermons of clerics but by the tweets and Facebook messages of people such activist Wael Ghonim, who's on leave from his job at Google.

At the same time, however, it is far from clear that there exists, in Finkelstein's terminology, a «Holocaust industry,» or that Holocaust activists are necessarily motivated by the basest of motives.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Gilbert Baker is said to have gotten the idea for the rainbow flag from this flag in borrowing it from the Hippie movement of that time largely influenced by pioneering homosexual activist Allen Ginsberg.

All this was refuted from those that were pressured by the gay activist groups to say there was such a thing as the gay gene.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

He received little support from Republicans in Congress or the party organization, but he overcame their opposition by arousing the passion of grassroots activists.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

Even the Democratic Party in 2012 removed the «rare» qualifier from their platform, moved by activists who want to erase any sense that abortion should be minimized any more than another medical procedure.

Animal protectionists cast a great deal of ire on the wildlife damage control programs, especially the work performed by USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services (hereafter WS) which has historically administered predator control programs in the U.S.. For example, activists reject the idea that coyote control programs are needed to protect flocks from costly predation.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN)- Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from being put to death on the charge of blasphemy.

The German, Roman Catholic thinker and activist, Hans Kung, has formulated a statement of values that has been accepted by persons from many different cultural and religious backgrounds.