Its down-value look and activist ethos are evident in everything, from the black house-paint mural he has brushed across one of the museum's new white walls to the hand-printed, hand-bound books he has placed in the gallery that he designates as both chapel and library.
Patagonia's donation aligns with their unique activist ethos, but a growing number of corporations are joining them in recognizing that businesses not only can be part of the solution to challenges facing our planet, but that they must be; that their responsibilities extend beyond shareholders, to the environment and the communities they serve.
(Before diving into the catalog, I wasn't familiar with Consolidated, an early 90s industrial outfit with an activist ethos, whose 1994 album Business of Punishment was designed by Barbara Kruger).
But others, including the activist shareholder Ethos, have criticized the bank for making a deal without informing existing shareholders or giving them the opportunity to participate in any rights issue.
Ryoko Ando, a (pro-establishment) citizen activist who hosts Ethos' human experiments in Fukushima, said: "Is this the kind of world we've arrived at over the 67 years since the end of World Ward Two?" Written on Nagasaki Day".
Restlessness among shareholders helped to oust Marcel Ospel as UBS's chairman in April.Dominique Biedermann, the executive director of Ethos, an activist fund, says the 2006 results gave UBS shareholders no inkling of trouble ahead: "We thought we were investors in a normal, classical bank; it turns out we were shareholders in another kind of bank that takes a lot of risk".
Ethos, an influential activist shareholder that told its Swiss pension fund clients to reject Credit Suisse's pay practices, said the vote was an even stronger signal to the bank's board than last year, when opposition stood at 23percentt.
The words mirror the ethos of the anti-gentrification activists, whose tactics have been praised by activists in other parts of the U.S. where rapid change in some working-class neighborhoods is seen as an existential threat.
In fact, there are many activist groups who have based their entire ethos on the cream pie, including Al Pieda, the Biotic Baking Brigade, and the Entartistes, a member of which goes by the name of Pope Tart.
In fact, there are many activist groups who have based their entire ethos on the cream pie, including Al-Pieda, the Biotic Baking Brigade and the Entartistes, a member of which goes by the name Pope Tart.
The fact that this ethos has infected artists, social activists (yes, they are called hacktivists), philosophers, urban planners, community organizers, and technologists, and that they all mingle together to create things — that's what makes Silicon Valley tick.
