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Riptide consults with Military Families Speak Out to raise profile of the largest organization of anti-war military families in US history at a critical time for the anti-war movement. |
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Riptide continues to lead media campaign on behalf of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and for victims of torture and "extraordinary rendition" such as Canadian citizen Maher Arar. |
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Riptide brings wide publicity to New York's first worker-run restaurant, Colors, and the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), the worker's center that established the restaurant. |
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Republican Convention comes to New York; Riptide works with anti-war, immigrant and poor people's organizations to draw wide press to their rallies and messages. Riptide also develops successful web and earned media campaign to defend landmark human rights law, the Alien Tort Statute. |
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Riptide plays a leading role in shaping messages and implementing communications strategies for the anti-war movement. |
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Riptide coordinates the reunion of: John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Joyce Horman, Sissy Spacek, and David Clennon at the Charles Horman Truth Project 2002 Human Rights Award at Studio 54 celebrating the 20th anniversary of the film Missing. |
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Riptide works with Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions to raise awareness about racial disparities in the application of the federal death penalty. |
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Riptide serves as press advisor for International Forum on Globalization and CorpWatch drawing attention to creeping corporate influence over the United Nations. |
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Riptide is integral to publicizing the role of Susan Sarandon in protesting the police killing of African immigrant Amadou Diallo in New York. |
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Riptide leads PR campaign against oil giant Unocal, charged with complicity in human rights violations in Burma. |
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Following corruption charges, Adelphi University's controversial President is fired. In a separate development a racist voting system is overturned; Riptide places front page stories on the same day. |
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After Crown reneges on publishing Karen Finley’s tongue-in-cheek parody of lifestyle tips of Martha Stewart, Riptide's strategic PR campaign helps secure a new publisher. |
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Haitian paramilitary leader Toto Constant is spotted by former victims in Queens, NY; Riptide coordinates media campaign demanding justice for his victims. |
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1199 League of Registered Nurses conducts a successful strike for better labor conditions in a Port Jervis, NY hospital with Riptide's PR assistance. |
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Riptide organizes premiere of Danny Glover's film, Bopha! and helps raise awareness and funding for democratic elections in South Africa. |
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Riptide develops strategic PR campaign to highlight new evidence that exonerates American diplomat Alger Hiss on charges of spying for Soviet Union. |
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Riptide places national and international news stories after Guatemalan Defense Minister Hector Gramajo is sued for human rights violations by the Center for Constitutional Rights. |
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Riptide founded The Media Project for Peace in the Middle East to draw attention to diverse anti-war efforts as tensions between the U.S. and Iraq escalate. |
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Riptide Communications, Inc. founded |