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Bringing together newly commissioned essays from leading activists, curators, and humanitarians, extensive photographic documentation, and an array of archival materials, the catalogues will serve as the comprehensive record for this groundbreaking exhibition and provide readers with an expanded historical and political context for the project.

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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»).

Bank - led efforts to shield loans held on balance sheet from new mortgage rules are drawing heavy fire from consumer activists and independent mortgage lenders.

This led to a lot of criticism from student loan activists who argued that the government was taking advantage of borrowers.

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.

The latest wave of activist - investor involvement has led to a record number of spinoffs, divestitures and various other strategic reorganizations in 2014, many of which often elicit cheers from shareholders.

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,....

Popular sports journalists like Peter King and Christine Brennan stopped using the name in print and former players, NFL referees and even President Obama spoke out against the name while Native American activist Suzan Harjo led a case that resulted in the U.S. Patent Office removing the trademark from the name, deeming it disparaging.

The shooting quickly gained attention from Black Lives Matters and other activists and organizations dedicated to holding police responsible, which led to Thursday's protests outside Golden 1 Center and now these messages from the Kings and Celtics.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

On nesting, I think the very wise Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh might offer these words to us... «At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.»

The next demonstration will take place on January 29th, according to plans from the Education Activist Network and the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees - the two groups which have taken the lead on most of the later protests.

And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual conservative activists can learn from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the way).

What the development is doing is getting activists and young people previously switched off from member - led politics engaged with unionisation.

Then a prison break in February 2006 resulted in the escape into the Yemeni countryside of 23 leading al - Qaeda activists — including several who had been transferred from Guantanamo.

Looking ahead, Steve (not surprisingly) sees tremendous political potential for online video both for campaigns and for individual activists — with broadband, easy hosting and cheap editing tools, the «last and most compelling medium is delivered into the hands of the masses,» leading to a creative explosion both from average citizens and from professional communicators.

Clinton has hired two political operatives from her 2016 presidential campaign to help manage Onward Together, the project she founded this spring with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to fund and support a coalition of Democratic groups led by activists and organizers.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Leading AIDS activists are protesting Governor Andrew Cuomo for ordering quarantine for people returning to the US from West Africa after having close contact with someone who has Ebola there.

But by the time Nick Clegg returned from his weekend break with the Spanish in - laws to reverse an earlier denial that he knew anything about alleged harassment of party officials and activists, the story was leading all the bulletins I saw.

What led to the attack on the person of the paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa by the notorious radio show host is unclear, but some say it was during the period the Okyeman Council banned two NDC activists from entering the Ofori Panin Fie at Kyebi, while others claim it was during the time the Okyenhene complained about how the Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government was sidelining indigenes of Akyem in his appointments.

The Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing led the Campaign's weekly action, bringing together activists and religious leaders from several faiths.

(CNN)- A conservative activist who's challenging a top House Republican Wednesday landed an endorsement from a leading national tea party organization.

Karen Scharff, with the Working Families Party, which is led by reform activists and union leaders, says a request that the unions refrain from spending money on campaigns when there are no restrictions on big business, would not work.

There was an atmosphere of tension accompanied by jeering and heckling led by the Labour activists from Brighton.

Lin Sakai, the lead coordinator of the Indivisible groups across the 19th Congressional District, states, «Sunday's NY19Votes canvass action was extraordinary in that is was a 100 % grassroots - lead, first - time - ever collaboration between dozens of emerging and established activist groups from across the district.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

The Green Party's influence peaked in 2000 with the controversial campaign of consumer activist Ralph Nader who won 2.7 percent of the vote — leading him to be accused of having been a «spoiler» who had taken votes from Democratic candidate Al Gore, allowing George W. Bush to win the election.

Alvarez also took issue with criticism from animal - rights activists, who say the industry leads to abuse of the horses.

Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and first - time political candidate, has drawn a large amount of support from Tea Party activists in the state that has helped propel him into the lead, according to recent Louisville Courier - Journal / WHAS Bluegrass Polls.

Criticism from activists in Rochester recently led Mayor Lovely Warren to withdraw city funding for a training course provided by the company, known as the Force Science Institute, in September.

The event will feature a video introduction from national DREAM activist Jose Antonio Vargas and a Town Hall forum with Assemblyman Francisco, lead sponsor of the New York State Dream Act, to bring together undocumented New Yorkers to share their stories, ask questions, and learn what the next Public Advocate can do to empower immigrant families.

Several faces missing from the crowd were remembered: Edie Windsor, longtime St. Pat's supporter and LGBTQ rights icon; Mary Audrey Gallagher, PFLAG supporter and mother of City Councilmember Daniel Dromm; Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag (who led the parade last year); and human rights activist General James P. Cullen.

The Pfizer site project has laid bare simmering tension between Williamsburg's Jewish and Latino populations, and has led to anger and protests from activists for years.

Biotechnology from A to Z (Oxford University Press, pp 358, Pounds Sterling 12.50 pbk) does just that, and should be on the shelves of anyone with an interest in biotechnology, from environmental activists and bench scientists of all disciplines to chief executives of multinational corporations and leading politicians.

Mark Harrington, a leading AIDS activist from the Treatment Action Group in New York, said: «This is a terrible result.

Last year, I had to take a year off from leading the Whole Health Medicine Institute because my mother was dying, and in order to show up fully for that life - altering and life - ending journey, I needed to take some space from my activist work.

Sean Penn is shaping up to be the leading contender for the best actor Oscar after receiving the top honor from the Film Critics society for his portrayal of slain gay activist Harvey Milk in «Milk».

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

With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimonies from leading voices, including Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Angela Davis, Senator Cory Booker, Grover Norquist, Khalil Muhammad, Craig DeRoche, Shaka Senghor, Malkia Cyril, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

Along the way is a stunning chase sequence involving the barrelling bulk of Okja through a crowded Seoul shopping centre, goofy support from a ragtag of Animal Liberation Front activists (led by the softly spoken Paul Dano), and a terrific cameo from Jake Gyllenhaal as a safari - suited TV animal scientist who's sold out to Mirando.

In both cases, solidarity thinking makes it difficult for them to comprehend and empathize with concern families and communities have for their children and each other — and leads to loss of trust from those they serve, as well as increased scrutiny from media and activists.

All of the defectors, so far, are states led by Republican governors who have taken considerable heat from tea party activists and GOP legislators who oppose Common Core as an overreach by the federal government.

Chinese activists, led by HSI, rescued dozens of terrified animals from a slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, just days ahead of the June 21st annual dog meat festival.

Activists from the group Decolonize This Place led chants for «repatriation» and «reparations» at New York's Brooklyn Museum

Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-...]

From prescient feminist Lynn Hershman Leeson to Cuban artist - activist Tania Bruguera to the female - led collective Futurefarmers to social practitioners Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, YBCA champions women who are creating new civic imaginaries and redefining what it means to work in the public realm.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.