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In 2018, TIFFANY ROBERTS, a 42-year-old lawyer, joined the Southern Center for Human Rights, a venerable civil-rights organization based in Atlanta. She had been a criminal-defense attorney moonlighting as an [...]

LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographs document the challenges and inequities faced by people across America's heartland but also serve as calls to action to help address them. Born in 1982 in [...]

On February 16, 47-year-old Russian lawyer and political activist Alexei Navalny collapsed and died in a prison colony north of the Arctic circle, where he was serving a 19-year sentence [...]

Bernie Sanders has made plenty of history as a democratic socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, an independent U.S. Representative, and then a U.S. Senator. He was a contender for the [...]

New Students for a Democratic Society co-chair Audari Tamayo at the pro-Hamas encampment at the UW-Milwaukee. New SDS is on the same path that led original SDS activists to form [...]

The Queen that Wears the Crown, BayMar Publishing, Horane Smith, 19.99 (318p), 9781998753352 Genre: Fiction/Mystery/Thriller Carmen Young is the jewel of her family--beautiful, assistant manager of a local bank, and [...]

In This Issue / Funds Activist watch Elliott Investment Management has amassed a stake worth more than $5bn in Honeywell and is urging the US industrial giant to separate into [...]

WHETHER A CRIME was even committed is debatable. Whether the punishment handed down is reasonable is another question. On November 19th judges in Hong Kong's biggest-ever national-security trial sentenced 45 [...]

Sakra CSR initiative aims to support child health and well-being by partnering with 10 more schools by 2025~ On the eve of Children's Day, Mr. Ajay Oli, the founder of [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and XR Fashion Action claim at least 5,500 workers in Inditex's supply chain remain at risk of prison sentences and arrests due to [...]

Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo weighed in on the presidential race the Saturday before the election, more forcefully endorsing Kamala Harris than before alongside reproductive rights and abortion access advocate Hadley [...]

In This Issue / Funds Activist watch Starboard Value has called for Pfizer’s board to “actively hold management accountable” for poor performance, says the Financial Times. CEO Albert Bourla has [...]

Byline: Andrea González-Ramírez This Halloween, nothing is spooking conservative activists more than early-voting data that shows women are outpacing men and turning out in droves. A (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/29/gender-gap-early-voting-00186155) Politico analysis of [...]

Byline: Bhavini Srivastava The accused was arrested by Nagaland Police in November 2023 from Delhi but was released on interim bail by a Saket Court. The High Court later granted [...]

Bank of America may be targeted by activist investors, Charles Gasparino writes in The New York Post's 'On the Money' column. Gasparino writes that the bank's five-year chart of the [...]

Redburn Atlantic analyst Colin Isaac upgraded Air Products to Neutral from Sell with a price target of $330, up from $255. The firm says the Mantle Ridge activist campaign addresses [...]

In This Issue / Funds Activist watch Air Products and Chemicals’s (APC) decision to invest $15bn in clean hydrogen projects, because it hopes demand will outstrip supply, has weighed on [...]

Ethel Kennedy led a life marked by privilege and glamour, but also tragedy and loss—and she turned it into a life of activism. Her parents died in a plane crash [...]

Activist hedge fund Starboard has taken a stake in drug giant Pfizer. Starboard execs met with company officials last week to outline their complaints. See highlights from the 74-page slideshow [...]

In This Issue / Funds Activist watch Shares in Gerresheimer surged 6.8% after US activist investor Eminence Capital disclosed it had bought a 5.43% stake in the German manufacturer of [...]

As I noted in Part 1, this year marks the 9th anniversary of the first volume of She Rises trilogy, a collective writing project, which was first published in 2015 [...]

Mago is an East Asian/Korean word for the Cosmic Mother or the Creatrix. This piece is written as the first of a four-part essay. In this series I am surveying [...]

Starboard Value has taken a significant stake in Pfizer, said people familiar with the matter. The drug giant's stock has dropped significantly since its 2021 COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Starboard has [...]

Byline: Bhavini Srivastava Wangchuk and others have been on a foot march from Leh to Delhi to demand sixth Schedule for Ladakh, which was carved out of the erstwhile state [...]

Byline: Medgatetoday Gmail.Com The Superintendent of Police (SP) of Kurnool District, Mr. G. Bindu Madhav, emphasized the importance of taking special care of one's health. Speaking as the chief guest [...]

Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan responded to sharp criticism from activist investor Elliott Investment Management, calling their remarks 'inane.' During an investor day presentation, Jordan defended the airline's strategic plan, [...]

India, Sept. 27 -- In a letter addressed to the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Bhupender Yadav, wildlife activist Ajay Dubey from Bhopal has highlighted serious [...]

Byline: Todd Balym The Western Bulldogs AFL club have been urged to retire their mascots and undertake a name change after receiving a complaint from the People for the Ethical [...]

Sign up for (https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/newsletters/subscribe/) Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Voters on Chicago’s West Side will see two candidate names on their ballots [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) was felicitated by Moneylife Foundation and prominent right-to-information (RTI) activists from Mumbai for his tireless dedication to promoting transparency, accountability, and [...]

Byline: Shashwat Singh HGOs facilitate pilgrimage for Haj and Umrah to Saudi Arabia. The Delhi High Court recently set aside the Ministry of Minority Affairs's orders to blacklist various travel [...]

India, Sept. 16 -- A group of 85 organisations have raised alarm over the precarious situation in the downstream villages along the flow of Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD) in Gujarat's [...]

Andrew Barrett is hardly a rat sympathizer. He's spent years waging war on the rodents who flock to his community garden in Brooklyn, smashing the entrances to their underground burrows, [...]

Activist investor Engine Capital has built a roughly 4% stake in Upwork and is pushing for a shakeup to the board of the freelance marketplace operator, reported CNBC's Rohan Goswami. [...]

Activist investor Starboard Value LP took aim Rupert Murdoch in a (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240909244109/en/Starboard-Value-Issues-Letter-to-News-Corp-Shareholders-Regarding-a-Proposal-to-Eliminate-the-Company%E2%80%99s-Dual-Class-Share-Structure-at-the-2024-Annual-Meeting) Monday letter arguing that the legal uncertainty surrounding the 93-year-old media mogul’s succession poses a risk to the [...]

A pair of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters interrupted (https://www.politics-prose.com/dana-bash?srsltid=AfmBOoo9OGScxb6K0zOonfbTbkUKZCCtDInyAxnvkXy4JljP0b5sOCQU) a book event featuring CNN’s Dana Bash at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington D.C. on Thursday evening, making a number [...]

Monness Crespi analyst Gus Gala reiterates a Buy rating and $30 price target on shares of Intermex after activist investor Breach Inlet Capital Management issued a letter to the board [...]

In recent years, journalists, human rights activists, and members of the opposition have not been the only targets of increasing government pressure: so have the organizations and individuals who working [...]

In a quiet suburb of the Ugandan capital Kampala, Henry Mukiibi runs a health clinic without any drugs. It is one of the few places LGBTQI+ people can safely receive [...]

1. Book Banners Hit a Wall in Court In year three of an organized right-wing political attack on the freedom to read, a string of legal victories in federal court [...]

WHAT DID CHRISTIANS DO when Israel bombed the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, one of the oldest churches in the world, killing 18 of the hundreds of Palestinians [...]

IN APRIL IN TEANECK, NEW JERSEY, OUTSIDE ONE OF THE TOWN'S LARGEST synagogues, approximately 100 'pro-Palestinian' protesters, many of whom had been bused in for the occasion, attempted to disrupt [...]

APRIL 12, 2024 One week ago, after months of intense pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Pomona College hit a breaking point. Students had been camping on the small California campus's main quad for [...]

Engr. Imtiaz Hussain Shah is a highly accomplished engineer with over 37 years of experience in the engineering field. Holding a BSc. degree in Civil from UET Lahore (Taxila Campus), [...]

India, Aug. 29 -- Wildlife activists have expressed deep concern over the death of a young female elephant at a training centre within Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha. The elephant [...]

Despite early reports (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/19/democratic-national-convention-gaza-protests-pro-palestine) predicting tens of thousands of protesters over the Israel-Hamas war at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, the real numbers were markedly less. But [...]

Amid larger Gaza protests, advocates are meeting with delegates to call for a cease-fire and a plan for the release of loved ones. As activists gathered in Chicago for the [...]

In the UK, protests outside clinics or hospitals that perform abortions are, theoretically, banned within a 150-metre 'buffer zone'. But the legislation has yet to be enforced in England and [...]

Thousands of people gathered on Monday for the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago’s Union Park to kick off a week of pro-Palestine activism. The protesters fought [...]

At the end of the Not Another Bomb solidarity rally at Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday, Sunil Malhotra took the microphone before hundreds of protesters waving signs and Palestinian [...]