PPT-History and Activism:

Kony 2012 as a Teaching Moment Michelle Moyd PhD History Department Indiana UniversityBloomington African Studies Program Summer Institute June 19 2012 Invisible Children founded 2004. Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School. (Based on research papers coauthored with . Lucian A. Bebchuk, . Alon. . Brav. , Hyunseob Kim, Frank . Partnoy. , and Randall Thomas). Prepared for “The . Realities of Stewardship for Institutional Owners, Activist Investors and Proxy . Professor John C. Coffee, Jr.. . Adolf A. . Berle. Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate . Governance. Melbourne. 4 August 2015. 1. Part I: The Rising Pace of Hedge Fund Activism. “Kony2012” : Thin Solution for Thick Problem?. "War, Famine, Plague & Death are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and these days they're riding hard through the back roads of Africa.” . Professor John C. Coffee, Jr.. . Adolf A. . Berle. Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate . Governance. &. Professor Darius . Palia. Thomas A. . Law’s Allure. Policy-making (adapted from Barnes). Juridification. because . effective. Lower costs to access courts. Strike down state laws across country. May not need to compromise. Brown. as example?. 2012 NTU Conference on Finance. 1. Re-Jin . Guo. University of Illinois at Chicago. Timothy Kruse. Xavier University. Tom . Nohel. Loyola University, Chicago. Staggered Board . in US Corporate Governance. attacking critical infrastructure. In each of these forms of destruc tional means, such as meeting in person, are inconvenient or im-possible. Anonymous discussion boards and encryption software help Catherine Crisp, PhD, MSW . Associate Professor, UA Little Rock. clcrisp@ualr.edu. 501.569.8465. 1. What this presentation IS and is NOT. It IS an overview of some basic tools for organizing and activism.. Urban Poor. Not everyone found the American Dream. Poor class starts to rise up. White Flight- Leaving city for suburb. Rural poor moved to cities. Cities were robbed of tax payers. Inner Cities. Suburbanites did not see what was happening. Restraint. Unit 4: Institutions . I. Judicial . activism. . Philosophy . that the courts should take an active role in solving social, economic, and political problems. Courts . should uphold the “guardian ethic”: they act as a guardian of the people. What’s best for the US?. Judicial activism. Court should take active role in solving social, economic, & political problems. Courts uphold ‘guardian ethic’. Examples. Establishing ‘one man, one vote’ principle to reapportionment [Baker vs. Carr, 1961]. Types of Activism. Civil Disobedience. Craftivism. Boycotting. Vegetarianism. Nonviolence. Peace Movement. Political Campaigning. Protest. Striking. Mahatma Gandhi. Advocated for Nonviolence throughout the world. Today La Raza Unida has advanced to a bileveled structure see How to our people ganization to student organizations since they have limitations Not only do student organizations serve as a training gr Not Just tarches ACase Study of the Kids in Birmingham 1963 ProjectANN JIMERSON AND SONIA YACOAbstractRecent archival literature on social justice emphasizes activismthe importance of documenting soci