What You Can Do
October 20, 2011
Occupy Fox Studios Tomorrow
For those of you in the Los Angeles area, Change to Win is organizing Occupy Fox Studios during the News Corporation shareholders meeting Friday. Tell the Board of News Corp and Fox that they need to be accountable for the company’s actions! Details after the jump.
Continue reading >>October 15, 2011
Trouble For The Murdochs Brewing At Upcoming News Corp. Shareholders’ Meeting
News Corporation’s shareholders’ meeting is next Thursday, October 21. But there are plenty of signs that challenges to the leadership of the conglomerate are in the offing. Reuters reported (found via Yahoo) yesterday, “Rupert Murdoch's multi-million dollar campaign to win back the hearts and minds of News Corporation's independent investors suffered a new blow on Friday after another key shareholder group called for his eviction from its board.”
Continue reading >>October 14, 2011
Send A Personal Message To The Koch Brothers About Their Cancer-Causing Pollution
Our friends at Brave New Foundation - with whom we remain proud to be affiliated - have a new video as part of their Koch Brothers Exposed campaign. This latest video focuses on the unusually high cancer rate in an Arkansas community downstream from a Koch-owned Georgia Pacific plant.
Continue reading >>October 8, 2011
Want To Occupy Your City? Brave New Foundation Has Advice And Inspiration
Our friends at Brave New Foundation have a new video that they hope will inspire people to join the Occupy movement. Filmmaker Robert Greenwald wrote in AlterNet, "The Occupy Wall Street protest is a full bore indictment against corporate greed and dysfunctional government. It’s a demand for nation building here at home... We’ve set up a user-friendly database for you to find a protest in your city and spread the word. Already, there are thousands of protesters in New York City and hundreds more in Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, Miami and elsewhere."
Continue reading >>August 31, 2011
Brave New Foundation's Latest Video: Meet The New American Sweatshop
Check out the latest from our friends at Brave New Foundation's Cuentame campaign: Meet The New American Sweatshop. Cuentame's Axel Caballero writes: A majority of carwash workers are Latino and immigrants – many do not have a clear understanding of their rights, which opens the door for abusive car wash operators to take advantage.
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