The fight for a "living wage" became a populist battle against "profits for barons," in the words of Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr., and an opportunity to hold developers that use public funds accountable.
The decision to remove the photograph was taken by the museum – publicly funded, publicly accountable – itself.
The good news is pension funds are accountable to pension members.
"This settlement serves as another reminder that the SEC will hold hedge fund managers accountable when their employees violate the securities laws".
Sue Richards is a member of Keep Our NHS Public, a non-party political organisation aiming to retain the NHS as a publicly provided, funded and accountable service.
A major target of Highfields Capital's ire is CoreLogic's chief executive, Anand K. Nallathambi, whom the hedge fund holds accountable for many of the company's problems.
Regulators have not held fund directors accountable, and without that pressure, he said, "you are going to get the kind of fraudulent behavior that is alleged in the Spitzer action".
He favoured a new generation of privately funded, democratically accountable development corporations, supported by a new mechanism to capture the uplift in land value once it is developed – so a bit more money for parks and schools and a bit less for the landowner.
Channeling the domestic and external resources through a better-coordinated strategic framework made off-budget funds more accountable and also created an enabling environment for joint assessments of the performance of the public health sector rather than piece-meal and shielded assessments of the various projects.
The leaders of CSOs that receive foreign funding are not accountable to their organizations, he said, but rather to the sources of their funding, turning the concept of democratic accountability on its head.
