Together, they participated in the civil rights movement and passed their activist values to three children.
Activists' values are co-opted once they've succeeded in shifting the norm.
The partnership is named after the 19th-century Earl of Shaftesbury, a social reformer and poverty activist, whose values Duncan Smith, in a speech only last week, claimed are his own.
Under the leadership of James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, and others, including Richard Land, the official in charge of public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention, activists organized "values voters" with the help of ballot initiatives in eleven states for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage.
Our success proves that our activist views enhance value.
Rolls-Royce said the US activist hedge fund Value Act had requested a seat on the board.
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But it has a fight on its hands: a few days after it announced its more limited spin-off, another activist investor, Starboard Value, said in a regulatory filing that Darden's plan "falls significantly short of the actions required to maximise shareholder value".
BLOOMBERG NEWS AOL Moves to Appease Starboard | The Internet company agreed to many of the demands of the activist fund Starboard Value, saying it would look to nominate two independent directors and return to shareholders all the proceeds from its recent patent sale, The Wall Street Journal reports.
