It was stated, "BP PLC's Chief Executive John Browne resigned Tuesday, hours after a judge allowed a newspaper to publish allegations from a former boyfriend that the executive misused company resources. Browne, who had already moved up his departure by more than a year after a deadly refinery blast in Texas and a giant oil spill in Alaska, denied any improper conduct relating to BP. But he acknowledged that he had lied to a judge about how he met his former partner, with whom he had a four-year relationship. "The Mail on Sunday" newspaper that had sought to publish the claims, immediately called for Browne to be prosecuted for perjury. Browne said he regretted the lie, saying he was in shock at his private life being exposed, and was stepping down voluntarily 'to avoid unnecessary embarrassment and distraction to the company.'"
Article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0915060420070210
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_bi_ge/britain_bp_ceo
bp homepage: http://www.bp.com
Concerning the media coverage: http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7032766
When going to the bp homepage, I had to do a search for "ceo brown resignation" to find any information about the situation. They are trying to barry it under already it seems, as if they were ashamed of the matter, instead of tackling it head on.
In the article, posted on the bp homepage, they are quick to mention that the board of BP p.l.c. appointed his designated successor, Dr Tony Hayward, as the new CEO with immediate effect as to make the matter a celebration.
They used quotes from Browne that were also used in the news media articles, as well as mentioned the allegations of relating to the limited use by Jeff Chevalier of BP computer and staff resources in a brief statement.
The company goes on to states, "John has made it clear to the BP Board that he has decided to step down with immediate effect because he does not want this public focus on his private life to detract from the paramount task of running the BP group."
The company also made a note to the editors, as well as posted a personal statement from Lord Browne.
The company has a light, trying to stay calm, tone. It seems like they are trying to come across as the situation being handled well and no panic. They state their deepest regret in the loss of Lord Browne as CEO to the company. The bp company also tried to make Browne look innocent through the statement by stating his side more and by quoting Browne, "The allegations are full of misleading and erroneous claims. I deny categorically any allegations of improper conduct relating to BP. The company has confirmed today that it has found no such wrongdoing."
Their statement was well-informed and well-written. Could have used more resonses to the media.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
References: Company Crisis
Tyson Foods : Houston, TX -
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070430_tnt_chemicalleak.22e720c1.html#
http://news.yahoo.com/s/kprc/20070430/lo_kprc/13223169
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/Default.aspx
Motorola:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/04/23/daily40.html?from_rss=1
http://www.huliq.com/20098/motorola-phones-held-not-to-infringe-university-of-texas-system-patent
http://www.pr-inside.com/motorola-phones-held-not-to-infringe-r107432.htm
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=8093_8022_23
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070430_tnt_chemicalleak.22e720c1.html#
http://news.yahoo.com/s/kprc/20070430/lo_kprc/13223169
http://www.tyson.com/Corporate/PressRoom/Default.aspx
Motorola:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/04/23/daily40.html?from_rss=1
http://www.huliq.com/20098/motorola-phones-held-not-to-infringe-university-of-texas-system-patent
http://www.pr-inside.com/motorola-phones-held-not-to-infringe-r107432.htm
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=8093_8022_23
Monday, March 5, 2007
astroturf vs. grass roots
astroturf = where a company is behind an organization and plan
grass roots = it is real people/community with a voice; independent organization
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
A grassroots political movement is one driven by the constituents of a community. The term implies that the genesis of the described political movement is natural yet spontaneous and imposes a dichotomy between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures.
Grassroots organize and lobby through procedures including:
-house meetings/parties
-larger meetings - AGM's
-putting up posters
-talking with pedestrians on the street (often involving informational clipboards)
-gathering signatures for petitions
-setting up information tables
-raising money from many small donors for political advertising or campaigns
-organizing large demonstrations
-asking individuals to submit opinions to media outlets and government officials
-get out the vote activities which includes the practices of reminding people to vote and/or transporting them to polling places.
The truth about Rainforest Action Network:
http://www.ran.org/ : "Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is made up of 36 staff members in San Francisco, CA and in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable world can be created in our lifetime, and that aggressive action must be taken immediately to leave a safe and secure world for our children.
Dubbed 'the most savvy environmental agitators in the business' by the Wall Street Journal, RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of multinational corporations with widespread public support for environmental protection. We believe that logging ancient forests for copy paper or destroying an endangered ecosystem for a week’s worth of oil is not just destructive, but outdated and unnecessary."
Since it was founded in 1985, Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. RAN works to protect rainforests and the human rights of those who live by and near the rainforests.
RAN = grass roots
grass roots = it is real people/community with a voice; independent organization
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
A grassroots political movement is one driven by the constituents of a community. The term implies that the genesis of the described political movement is natural yet spontaneous and imposes a dichotomy between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures.
Grassroots organize and lobby through procedures including:
-house meetings/parties
-larger meetings - AGM's
-putting up posters
-talking with pedestrians on the street (often involving informational clipboards)
-gathering signatures for petitions
-setting up information tables
-raising money from many small donors for political advertising or campaigns
-organizing large demonstrations
-asking individuals to submit opinions to media outlets and government officials
-get out the vote activities which includes the practices of reminding people to vote and/or transporting them to polling places.
The truth about Rainforest Action Network:
http://www.ran.org/ : "Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is made up of 36 staff members in San Francisco, CA and in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable world can be created in our lifetime, and that aggressive action must be taken immediately to leave a safe and secure world for our children.
Dubbed 'the most savvy environmental agitators in the business' by the Wall Street Journal, RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of multinational corporations with widespread public support for environmental protection. We believe that logging ancient forests for copy paper or destroying an endangered ecosystem for a week’s worth of oil is not just destructive, but outdated and unnecessary."
Since it was founded in 1985, Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. RAN works to protect rainforests and the human rights of those who live by and near the rainforests.
RAN = grass roots
Monday, February 26, 2007
Kelly Alley - Information
Speaking at the WaterWays 2007 Conference Wednesday, March 14, 2007.
Source: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/sociology/bios/alley.htm
"Professor Kelly D. Alley. is the Director of the Anthropology Program. She received her B.S. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.
Dr. Alley has carried out research in northern India for over ten years, focusing on public culture and environmental issues. Her book titled, On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (University of Michigan press 2002) explores Hindu interpretations of the sacred river Ganga in light of current environmental problems. She is the author of "Separate Domains: Hinduism, Politics and Environmental Pollution" in Hinduism and Ecology, edited by Chistopher Chapple and Mary E. Tucker (Harvard U Press 2000), "Images of Waste and Purification on the Banks of the Ganga" in City and Society (1998), and "Idioms of Degeneracy: Assessing Ganga's Purity and Pollution" in Purifying the Earthly Body of God, edited by Lance Nelson (SUNY Press 1998). The "Idioms" article was reprinted in Worldviews, Religion and the Environment (Thomson Wadsworth 2002), edited by Richard Foltz. She has also published, "Gandhiji on the Central Vista: A Postcolonial Refiguring" in Modern Asian Studies (1997), "Ganga and Gandagi: Interpretations of Pollution and Waste in Benaras" in Ethnology (1994), and "Urban Institutions at the Crossroads: Judicial Activism and Pollution Prevention in Kanpur" in Urban Anthropology (1996) among others.
Dr. Alley is now working with Julian Crandall Hollick, NPR radio producer, on the "Ganga Radio Series," a series of features and documentaries about the culture and ecology of the river Ganges in India and Bangladesh. For more information on that project, see Julian's website at: http://www.ibaradio.org/India/ganga/prototype/index.htm.
For three years, Dr. Alley and M C Mehta, an environmental lawyer from Delhi, directed a project to facilitate professional exchanges between environmental lawyers,scientists and NGOs to solve river pollution problems in India.
Dr. Alley's current interest is to complete a book on environmental public interest litigation in India that describes how citizens use the courts to enter policy and decision-making on environmental issues.
Her web based instructional program on environmental public interest litigation can be read at: http://www.auburn.edu/~alleykd/envirolitigators.
She is also working with the Center for Forest Sustainability, a peak of excellence program at Auburn, to study sustainable development along the urban-rural interface in westcentral Georgia."
Source: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/sociology/bios/alley.htm
"Professor Kelly D. Alley. is the Director of the Anthropology Program. She received her B.S. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.
Dr. Alley has carried out research in northern India for over ten years, focusing on public culture and environmental issues. Her book titled, On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (University of Michigan press 2002) explores Hindu interpretations of the sacred river Ganga in light of current environmental problems. She is the author of "Separate Domains: Hinduism, Politics and Environmental Pollution" in Hinduism and Ecology, edited by Chistopher Chapple and Mary E. Tucker (Harvard U Press 2000), "Images of Waste and Purification on the Banks of the Ganga" in City and Society (1998), and "Idioms of Degeneracy: Assessing Ganga's Purity and Pollution" in Purifying the Earthly Body of God, edited by Lance Nelson (SUNY Press 1998). The "Idioms" article was reprinted in Worldviews, Religion and the Environment (Thomson Wadsworth 2002), edited by Richard Foltz. She has also published, "Gandhiji on the Central Vista: A Postcolonial Refiguring" in Modern Asian Studies (1997), "Ganga and Gandagi: Interpretations of Pollution and Waste in Benaras" in Ethnology (1994), and "Urban Institutions at the Crossroads: Judicial Activism and Pollution Prevention in Kanpur" in Urban Anthropology (1996) among others.
Dr. Alley is now working with Julian Crandall Hollick, NPR radio producer, on the "Ganga Radio Series," a series of features and documentaries about the culture and ecology of the river Ganges in India and Bangladesh. For more information on that project, see Julian's website at: http://www.ibaradio.org/India/ganga/prototype/index.htm.
For three years, Dr. Alley and M C Mehta, an environmental lawyer from Delhi, directed a project to facilitate professional exchanges between environmental lawyers,scientists and NGOs to solve river pollution problems in India.
Dr. Alley's current interest is to complete a book on environmental public interest litigation in India that describes how citizens use the courts to enter policy and decision-making on environmental issues.
Her web based instructional program on environmental public interest litigation can be read at: http://www.auburn.edu/~alleykd/envirolitigators.
She is also working with the Center for Forest Sustainability, a peak of excellence program at Auburn, to study sustainable development along the urban-rural interface in westcentral Georgia."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Information
Speaking at the WaterWays 2007 Conference Wednesday, March 14, 2007.
Source: http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/about.html
"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 130 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.
Mr. Kennedy serves as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has worked on several political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.
He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. He helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress."
WaterKeeper Alliance:
"Grassroots activism at its finest. Waterkeeper Alliance is an international advocacy organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to empower 137 local Waterkeeper programs who defend local waterways from polluters. Waterkeeper Alliance provides legal, scientific, and organizational resources to ensure effective and democratic vehicles for citizens to protect their most precious resource – water." President: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RiverKeeper:
"Riverkeeper’s mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Hudson River, its tributaries and the watershed of New York City (protecting the city's drinking water supply) by tracking down and stopping polluters. Since 1983, Riverkeeper has investigated and brought to justice more than 300 environmental lawbreakers. " Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Source: http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/about.html
"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 130 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.
Mr. Kennedy serves as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has worked on several political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.
He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. He helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress."
WaterKeeper Alliance:
"Grassroots activism at its finest. Waterkeeper Alliance is an international advocacy organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to empower 137 local Waterkeeper programs who defend local waterways from polluters. Waterkeeper Alliance provides legal, scientific, and organizational resources to ensure effective and democratic vehicles for citizens to protect their most precious resource – water." President: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RiverKeeper:
"Riverkeeper’s mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Hudson River, its tributaries and the watershed of New York City (protecting the city's drinking water supply) by tracking down and stopping polluters. Since 1983, Riverkeeper has investigated and brought to justice more than 300 environmental lawbreakers. " Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
WaterWays 2007: Rough Draft
WaterWays 2007, held in Denton at the University of North Texas, beginning March 13 through the 15, is the second biennial Water Conference and is open to the public. This year the conference is prepared and organized by the Philosophy of Water Project in association with other institutions and departments. Some key note speakers at the conference this year will include, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which is apart of the Riverkeeper Organization. Also, Natarajan Ishmaran, the UNESCO-Secretary. WaterWays 2007 creates a union and convergence of Art, Science, Policy, and Philosophy. The conference is held to help spread the awareness of the important and critical water issues throughout the world, and it's main focus this year will be the water basins, specifically the Georgia-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM).
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