To illustrate the larger problem with how medical debt works in the US, about a year ago, a group of Occupy Wall Street activists purchased $14.7m in medical debt owed by 2,693 people living in 45 states and Puerto Rico.
"The burden of proof is on the Palestinians," Mr. Steinitz told Israel Radio on Sunday, "that the money we pass on, even money that is theirs, will not go to a terror organization, to terror activists, to the purchase of rockets that will later fall on Sderot, Ashkelon or Ashdod".
Following activist shareholder Carl Icahn's purchase of nearly 10% of Netflix stock, the company has revealed a plan which will prevent a hostile takeover of its company.
RELATIONAL INVESTORS, San Diego, a money management company run by the activist investor Ralph Whitworth, purchased 2.73 million shares of J. C. Penney, Plano, Tex., during the second quarter for $54.5 million, raising the possibility that the retailer will be pressured to sell its Eckerd drugstore chain.
Stop the Islamization of Nations, a group led by New York-based activist Pamela Geller, has purchased anti-Sharia billboards in Kansas City.
Although it could, in theory, be purchased compulsorily, the activists' control of the field means that the legal battle to do that would be significantly more complex, and that a major civil disobedience struggle – people versus bulldozers – would be on the cards.
When a group of Beijing activists copied the embassy and purchased their own $4,000 pollution monitor last year, they set off a firestorm of activism across the country over air quality.
Many activists have continuously followed the case, purchasing court documents and hosting www.tsimhonirevisited.com along with Facebook pages Justice for Tsimhoni and Tsimhoni in Review.
Three years later the brothers Joel and Arthur Spingarn, both civil rights activists involved in the NAACP, raised funds and purchased the old Burghardt homestead as a gift to Du Bois for his sixtieth birthday.
But activists and environmentalists do not have the resources to purchase Members of Congress like industry does.
