Activists infiltrate Stanford

Gamblers as Personal Finance Activists

Gambling behavior can serve as an informative indicator of important household heterogeneity that is difficult to observe directly in data. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive study of the consumption and personal finance of gamblers using a nationwide representative household survey. We find that consumers are more likely to gamble when income is higher than its n...

Activists target animal dealers.

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Activists and “difficult people”

Shareholder activists target Barclays AGM

On Thursday 23 April 2015, several protests were held outside the gates of the Barclays Annual General Meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. Several activists bought shares and attended the AGM in order to ask questions. Anti-militarist activists held a protest calling on Barclays to divest from the arms trade. One activist read out an alternative chairman's speech to the queue of shareholders wa...

Hacktivists: Cyberterrorists or Online Activists?

The last decade, online activism has vastly grown. In the current digital society, from time to time citizens decide to express their opinion by attacking large corporations digitally in some way. Where the activists claim this to be a digital assembly , others see it as criminal offences. In this paper, we will explore the legal and technical borders of the digital right to assembly. By doing ...