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RBS facing shareholder discontent
2013-05-14 12:19:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
RBS is facing shareholder discontent at its annual general meeting in Edinburgh over 607m of staff bonuses during a year when it lost 5.2bn.
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Its Bank of Americas Annual Shareholder Meeting: Time to Voice Discontent
2013-05-08 05:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: I know you care--in the past couple months, youve already taken multiple online actions to urge Bank of America to stop funding the coal industry. And as you are reading this, I am outside the Bank of America shareholder meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a group of 30 people who have been negatively impacted by coal. These friends have traveled thousands of miles--from California to India--to speak face-to-face with Bank of America decision makers. They are demanding an end to the havoc...
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To Silence Discontent, Chinese Officials Alter Calendar
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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