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2013-05-04 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: How do you prevent protests in China? Move the weekend. That's the Orwellian step taken by local authorities in the southwestern city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. May 4 is a sensitive date commemorating an influential student movement in 1919. It's especially potent in Chengdu, where it marks the fifth anniversary of a protest against the construction of a $6 billion crude oil refinery and petrochemical facility in Pengzhou, 25 miles away. As text messages circulated calling...

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