Sentences with phrase «rise of activists»

What has led to the rise of activists of late?

This fostered the rise of activist investors.

But when it comes to what women will be doing, I am encouraged by what Mill Valley photojournalist Paola Gianturco has documented — another global women's movement, the rise of the activist grandmother.

According to a release, participants will «explore the ways in which the politics of race are changing in America and France in a time of both growing extremism and the rise of activist movements like Black Lives Matter; what the rise of the populist right in both countries means for national identity; and what both countries» attitudes toward immigration have done to shape its interaction with the broader world.»

One new factor leading to more REIT purchases is the rise of activist investors such as Jonathan Litt, co-founder of Land & Buildings Investment Management.

Not exact matches

One of Adamczyk's first big tests will be his handling of activist investor Dan Loeb's proposal that Honeywell spin off its aerospace unit, where margins have risen, but sales growth has lagged.

Rise, the lead backer, was cofounded by Bill McGlashan, managing partner of TPG Growth, along with Bono, frontman of U2 and well - known social activist, and Jeff Skoll, an early eBay (ebay) exec, philanthropist, and film producer.

TORONTO — The rise of so - called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with it some questionable employer practices that have employees stressed out and labour activists fuming.

In after - hours trading on Tuesday, Panera's shares rose about 4 %, while Buffalo's grew 5.3 %, as that stock continues to benefit from a jolt in the wake of interest from an activist investor.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

Patagonia also released The Fisherman's Son, a 29 - minute documentary about Chilean surfer Ramon Navarro's rise from humble beginnings to the peak of the surfing world — and Navarro's growing influence as an activist preserving a surf spot on Chile's coastline from commercial development.

«We haven't yet seen the Internet rise in a coordinated action from the threat of surveillance, and that's exactly what we're hoping to trigger,» organizer, activist and entrepreneur Sina Khanifar says.

On Tuesday, facing rising political heat after the Parkland massacre, Trump, as he often does, blamed his predecessors for a lack of action and said he would be different, despite widespread skepticism among gun control activists about his sincerity and capacity to make the case for change.

So increasing focus on shareholder - friendly corporate governance, the rising clout of activist investors and the robust market for corporate control are all manifestations of the fact that shareholders want big companies to give them back their cash, and that companies are increasingly willing to do so.

Warring camps of employee activists at Google exemplify the dysfunction of our political climate and the rise...

Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

Activists rose up and retailers pledged to make the lives of the workers in their supply chains better.

He was a political activist, and most importantly he was rising up against the hypocracy of the Roman authority and the Jewish high priests, which were basically one in the same.

He belongs to a group of Christian thinkers and activists who have risen to ecumenical leadership through the Youth Movement of the Central Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

According to the Wall Street Journal, «UNICEF remains captive to a clutch of activists who have been leading boycotts and protests against the baby formula makers since the 1970s on the highly spurious grounds that the companies trying to supply better nutrition «exploit» the poor... If the toll of African AIDS babies continues to rise, the credibility of one of the most beloved UN agencies may sink.»

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.

It suggests the party is pulling its punches against the Conservatives — but maybe activists can embrace the hidden meaning of the figures and point out that the Lib Dems are becoming the party of tax rises.

Many of the tenants affected are among the least able to pay for rising housing costs under the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption and the Disability Rent Increase Exemption, activists say.

In this way, the rise of the right - wing blogosphere has been pegged to two forces: people who strongly dislike Gordon Brown (such as Fawkes) and people who want their government back (such as the ConservativeHome activists).

The Lib Dem party chairman, Lorely Burt, told activists in Solihull yesterday that she would not vote in favour of the rise.

In the summer of 1974, Howie Hawkins — a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College and fierce left - wing, anti-Vietnam War activist — started officer training in Quantico, Virginia for the Marine Corps.

The accusations against Schneiderman grew directly out of the #MeToo movement, with activist Michelle Manning Barish, one of the accusers, praising actress Rose McGowan for her example and bravery in speaking out against harassment.

The fellow Brooklynites, in addition to sharing similar political beliefs, rose to power with the aid of the Working Families Party, the labor and liberal activist - backed organization that swung the city's political zeitgeist leftward.

Yellow rose petals blanketed a patch of green grass at the grave of a suffragist and civil rights activist in Forest Lawn on Tuesday morning after a ceremony to mark 100 years since women won the right to vote in New York State.

It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.

Many activists I talked with during the movement's rapid rise considered him «antithetical to everything the Tea Party stands for,» as one Wisconsin Tea Party leader told me, and their philosophy of fiscal restraint and limited government was much closer to the libertarian - leaning Kochs than to Rove and the party establishment.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».

Activist group Queer Rising is calling on amateur paparazzi to join them at a protest of New York State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr.'s fundraiser, thrown by Senate Majority leader John Sampson.

Joining her is 26 - year - old East Village resident Natasha Dillon, a founder of the gay - rights activist group Queer Rising, who previously served on the board as a public member.

The nonprofit arm of America Rising, known as America Rising Squared, oversees some of the group's most controversial work on climate change: deploying «trackers» to videotape activists like Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor.

MIAMI — One of the first sea - level rise maps Broadway Harewood saw was a few years back, when climate activists gathered in his neighborhood to talk about how global warming would affect people in less - affluent South Florida communities.

This is partly down to a general desire for transparency, but it is also due to the rise of radical anti-GM activists, who have begun using tactics similar to those that helped destroy the prospects for GM technologies in Europe 20 years ago: chiefly, sowing doubt in the minds of the general public.

Giraffes are at risk from the expansion of farmland to feed a rising human population and from killings for their meat, often in areas of conflict such as South Sudan, according to the IUCN, which groups scientists, governments and activists.

Leslie brings home the cost of such projects by following an engineer, a bureaucrat, and, most powerfully, activist Medha Patkar, who has threatened to drown herself in the rising waters behind India's giant Narmada dam.

Such is the stigma attached to it that outspoken activist and Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan used the threat of wearing the label's dresses as a slur against actresses who spoke out about their plans to wear all black to this year's awards shows as part of a silent protest.

On Tuesday, the network ordered «Citizen Rose,» a documentary series that will follow actress and filmmaker Rose McGowan, who in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal has also become one of Hollywood's most outspoken activists.

Changing Sundance's atmosphere won't be a simple fix, said actor - turned - activist Rose McGowan, who has accused Weinstein of raping her in Park City in 1997, while both were attending Sundance.

Based on Eric Danville's bio «The Complete Linda Lovelace,» the film follows Linda Boreman's rise to fame as iconic porn star Linda Lovelace of 1972's DEEP THROAT, and her subsequent transformation into feminist, anti-porn activist Linda Marchiano.

Actor, filmmaker and outspoken social and political activist, Rose McGowan, will be this year's recipient of the Ad Astra Award during the 15th edition of the Tallgrass International Film Festival, presented by Consolidated Equities Trust Oct. 18 - 22 in Wichita, Kansas.

Films included Oakland - based filmmakers Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush's Dogtown Redemption, a look at the homeless population in Oakland, California; Eli Alder and Blair Gershkow's personal documentary about the rise of the neo-Nazi party in Skokie, Illinois, Surviving Skokie; and Marlene «Mo» Morris» look at artist and activist Edythe Boone, A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone.

Armed with this new skill, Cassius (aka «Cash») becomes a rising star at his company — much to the chagrin of his activist girlfriend, Detroit (Tessa Thompson).

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Unrated) Poignant biopic offering an intimate look at the remarkable life of the late author / actress / civil rights activist.

Austin P. Mckenzie, «When We Rise» The Broadway alum plays a young LGBT activist in Dustin Lance Black's chronicle of the early days of the gay movement.

Boots Riley (writer / director) / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.