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Activism in 2012: SDS founder Alan Haber and Odile Hugonot-Haber leading discussion on Occupy movement
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:00:06 -0800
The man credited with founding the Students for a Democratic Society, the movement that came to symbolize the radicalism that swept the 1960s, hasn’t given up the fight. Alan Haber , now 75 and living in Ann Arbor, continues to labor for causes he believes in — from working with Occupy Ann Arbor to lobbying for development of an urban park on the downtown Library Lot on Fifth Avenue, where an ...
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Olympus scandal triggers Japan shareholder activism
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:42:36 -0800
After British whistleblower Michael Woodford was sacked as CEO of Olympus and revealed the Japanese firm had covered up losses of $1.7 billion, he mounted a campaign to get his job back.
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Voice behind efforts for Md. Dream Act began activism as a teenage immigrant
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:43:00 -0800
That April 10 nearly six years ago was one of Jaime Contreras’s defining moments. People arrived on the Mall by the tens of thousands, waving American flags and chanting in Spanish, “Yes, we can!” Contreras, 37, still vividly remembers the vigor of more">
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