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ValueVision CEO Targeted by Activist Investor Clinton Group
2013-10-30 18:09:53| Jewelry - Topix.net
Activist shareholder Clinton Group Inc. is targeting television and Internet home shopping company ValueVision Media Inc. with a campaign to replace its chief executive officer and appoint board members.
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Indian climate change activist wins Commonwealth youth award
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: An Indian climate change activist who works with local communities and governments for environmental change has been awarded the Commonwealth youth award. Priti Rajagopalan, 23, received a 5,000-pound grant towards her work at a ceremony held at the Commonwealth secretariat headquarters in London, the Commonwealth said on October 19. "This award inspires me to move forward and to take a lot more people with me, with the same spirit, into the development sphere," Rajagopalan said. She plans...
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Coal executive turned climate change activist fights for seat on BHP board
2013-10-17 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A former chairman of the Australian Coal Association, who has accused the fossil fuel industry of stuffing up effective action on climate change, is fighting an insurgent battle to gain a seat on the board of the mining giant BHP Billiton. Ian Dunlop, formerly a senior executive in the oil, gas and coal industries, is attempting to gain shareholder support for his bid to challenge what he claims is utter bullshit from a resources industry that has stymied an urgent transition away from carbon-intensive...
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5 Activist Hedge Funds to Watch
2013-10-15 21:12:31| Logistics - Topix.net
Activist hedge funds : While hedge fund s follow many different investment philosophies, the industry can be boiled down to two types of managers: the activists and the passivists.
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Russia Denies Bail for Greenpeace U.S. Captain, Other Activist Over Arctic Protest
2013-10-14 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russia denied bail on Monday to the American captain of a Greenpeace ship and another activist who are among 30 environmentalists arrested on charges of piracy over a protest at an Arctic drilling platform. Captain Peter Willcox and Greenpeace activist Camila Speziale, 21, who has Italian and Argentinian citizenship, had appealed against an order that they be held in pre-trial detention through late November. Decisions on Arctic Sunrise crew members Cristian D'Alessandro of Italy and David John...
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