Activism is the doctrine or practice of vigorous action including direct-action campaigns, (writing letters to newspapers and politicians), demonstrations, boycotts, rallies, marches, strikes, and in some cases, guerilla protest tactics, as a means of achieving political, cultural, and social change.
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NEW YORK, Apr. 20 /CSRwire/ - If Earth had an ad budget, it would hire Earth Advertising, or at least that was my assumption when I invented the agency in 1999, originally eFlicks Media. Earth needs a good ad agency, Walter Cronkite had...
NEW YORK, Apr. 19 /CSRwire/ - If Earth had an ad budget, it would hire Earth Advertising, or at least that was my assumption when I invented the agency in 1999, originally called eFlicks Media. Earth needs a good ad agency, Walter Cronkite...
WASHINGTON, Apr. 18 /CSRwire/ - KaBOOM! is pleased to announce that James Siegal, most recently Chief of Staff for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), will join the national non-profit as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Current COO,...
DALLAS, Apr. 16 /CSRwire/ - On April 20, 2010, several million barrels of oil poured into the ocean as British Petroleums (BP)Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico. Two years later, filmmaker and director Bryan D. Hopkins award-winning documentary, DIRTY...
WASHINGTON, Apr. 09 /CSRwire/ - Beverly Schwartz, VP of Global Marketing at Ashoka, will hold the official release of her new book-length work, Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation, on April 11, 2012 at the FHI 360 Globe Theatre in DuPont Circle. The...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /CSRwire/ - Small business owners favor key provisions of the Presidents 2013 budget designed to support domestic job creation, modernize infrastructure and raise needed revenue with fairer taxes. These include increasing taxes on the wealthy, eliminating hedge fund manager tax...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 13 /CSRwire/ - alonovo research inc. has announced the signing of a fiscal sponsorship agreement with Netroots Foundation. The agreement will provide the operating structure for alonovo to pursue its mission -to create consumer and institutional procurement demand affinity with...
NEW YORK, Jan. 09 /CSRwire/ - YELLOWBRICKROAD Communications, a boutique social change firm based in New York, is changing its organizational structure to improve its long-term mission of designing new ways to move the world forward. Beginning today, the company will be divided...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 02 /CSRwire/ - Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Al Franken (Democrat, Minnesota) recently spent an hour on the floor of the U.S. Senate repudiating climate change denialists and arguing for serious U.S. action on climate change. Ignoring or flatout...
DALLAS, Dec. 15 /CSRwire/ - /PRNewswire/ - Just in time for the holiday season, Causes.com and ATT* unveiled a first-of-its-kind community to encourage activism: Connect For Good. Through this platform, millions of people will be able to directly and positively impact some of...