As Rendezvous reported a year ago, when Azerbaijan hosted the finals, local political activists took advantage of the presence of more than 1,000 visiting journalists to highlight corruption and rights abuses by the regime of President Ilhem Aliyev.
The aftermath of the London Bridge attack in June was used to illustrate how anti-Muslim activists took advantage, with 32 of the top 100 most shared tweets about the attack expressing negative sentiments about Muslims.
African American civil rights activists took advantage of these new conversations about the dangers of white supremacy to call for meaningful policy reforms, including desegregating schools, banning racial discrimination in employment and protecting voting rights.
Because a number of things in corporate governance have lent themselves to activists taking advantage, I think the reaction has to be, at least in the short term, that companies have dual-class mechanisms in place.
When prominent AIDS activist Peter Staley and others reached out to Clinton to discuss her policy prescriptions in a meeting with AIDS activists, taking advantage of the comments and looking to turn them into a positive, her campaign quickly agreed.
Before the summer, activists could take advantage of cheap debt and an endless supply of private-equity buyers to push for buybacks, asset disposals and all manner of other changes.
On Saturday, organizations, community members and activists will take advantage of the Super Bowl's spotlight on Georgia's capital to launch a movement calling for the removal of Confederate monuments and symbols in the state.
"At high-profile events, cyber-activists may take advantage of the large audience to spread their message," it said.
Last year, legislators there became the first to pass tough anti-predatory lending laws, taking aim at finance companies that lawmakers and consumer activists say routinely take advantage of unsophisticated homeowners.
With less than a month to go before Rio hosts the 2016 Olympic Games, the activists hope they can take advantage of the spectacle to highlight the city's rising levels of police violence and connect with Brazilian activists who are fighting a similar struggle.
