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Will one good quarter appease the activist investors dogging Salesforce?
After Salesforce delivered a stellar quarter, will it help get rid of the bevy of activist investors dogging the company?
Will one good quarter appease the activist investors dogging Salesforce? by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Disability Rights Activist Faces Backlash For Claiming Chris Brown “Mocks People with Physical Impairments”
Chris Brown has been no stranger to criticism over his nearly 20-year career, but the latest set of accusations he’s fielding may be a first.
The GRAMMY-winning singer, currently rocking stages on the European leg of his ‘Under the Influence’ tour, saw unusual movement of his actual legs catch the attention of a noted disability activist who has taken to the Web to assert “outrage”
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MarketWatch First Take: Why Tesla investor Ross Gerber backed down from his activist push for a board seat
Union Pacific looking for new chief executive amid activist pressure
Muslim activist who claimed she was of Latin, South Asian and Arab descent unmasked by her MOTHER
Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects
Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects
An energy company’s plans for a solar plant powering 25,000 homes were thwarted after a four-year battle with a nonprofit that teamed with locals to restrict large-scale solar projects, reports NPR. That non-profit’s name? “Citizens for Responsible Solar.”
“Citizens for Responsible Solar” is part of a growing backlash against renewable energy in rural communities across the United States. The group, which was started in 2019 and appears to use strategies honed by other activists in campaigns against the wind industry, has helped local groups fighting solar projects in at least 10 states including Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, according to its website.
“I think for years, there has been this sense that this is not all coincidence. That local groups are popping up in different places, saying the same things, using the same online campaign materials,” says Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. Citizens for Responsible Solar seems to be a well-mobilized “national effort to foment local opposition to renewable energy,” Burger adds. “What that reflects is the unfortunate politicization of climate change, the politicization of energy, and, unfortunately, the political nature of the energy transition, which is really just a necessary response to an environmental reality.”
Citizens for Responsible Solar was founded in an exurb of Washington, D.C., by a longtime political operative named Susan Ralston who worked in the White House under President George W. Bush and still has deep ties to power players in conservative politics. Ralston tapped conservative insiders to help set up and run Citizens for Responsible Solar…. And when Ralston was launching the group, a consulting firm she owns got hundreds of thousands of dollars from the foundation of a leading GOP donor who is also a major investor in fossil fuel companies. It’s unclear what the money to Ralston’s firm was used for. Ralston has previously denied that Citizens for Responsible Solar received money from fossil fuel interests….
[H]er group’s rhetoric points to a broader agenda of undermining public support for solar. Analysts who follow the industry say Citizens for Responsible Solar stokes opposition to solar projects by spreading misinformation online about health and environmental risks. The group’s website says solar requires too much land for “unreliable energy,” ignoring data showing power grids can run dependably on lots of renewables. And it claims large solar projects in rural areas wreck the land and contribute to climate change, despite evidence to the contrary.
Local politicians fear the political blowback from challenging misinformation, the article suggests — about both solar and wind projects. The result? “A 2022 report by the Sabin Center at Columbia University found 121 local policies around the country that are aimed at blocking or restricting renewable energy development, a nearly 18% increase from the year before.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople
Salesforce is looking at new ways to cut costs as activist investors continue to put pressure on the company. Today, Insider was reporting that the company is implementing much stricter performance measurements for engineering, with some salespeople being put under pressure to quit or succumb to harsh performance policies of their own. This is consistent […]
Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Spotify’s new activist investor is keeping a close eye on podcast spending
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Activist investor takes stake in Spotify, and it is all for company cuts
There is even more pressure for Spotify to be lean now. Last week, it was reported that activist investor ValueAct had purchased a stake in the streamer. Mason Morfit, who leads the firm, disclosed the new position at a private conference at Columbia University and indicated that he was on board with the cuts Spotify has been making.
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