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Rogue cellphone tracker alarms Seattle privacy activists
2014-08-05 06:05:10| Wireless - Topix.net
Phil Mocek, left, and Lee Colleton are among Seattle Privacy Coalition activists urging city oversight of surveillance technology.
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EPA hearings: Activists fight for health of planet
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WDTV: Heavily concerned about the future of the planet, environmentalists and public health officials were in Pittsburgh to testify at the EPA's public hearings. Though the harmful affects of CO2 emissions are among the reasons why they support the Clean Power Plan, there's more to it then that. They used phrases like "moral imperative," calling this the most important issue of our time. "We have a common calling to care for Creation and care for the most vulnerable people, and those things come together...
Activists Call for City to Use All Airbnb Tax Dollars on Affordable Housing
2014-07-25 17:45:20| PortlandOnline
Aaron Mesh in the Willamette Week, July 23, 2014
Activists say arrests made in protest at Utah tar sands mine project
2014-07-22 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sheriff's deputies in Utah arrested nearly two dozen environmental protesters who chained themselves to fences and construction equipment on Monday at a tar sands mining project in the remote Book Cliffs mountains, an activist group said. The Tar Sands Resistance group said about 80 activists set up a "blockade" at the PR Springs mine to highlight what it said would be huge environmental damage if it goes ahead. "These projects do nothing but devastate the land and pollute the water and air,"...
Net neutrality a key battleground in growing fight over encryption, activists say
2014-07-21 13:08:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Plans to favor some Internet packets over others threaten consumers' hard-won right to use encryption, a digital privacy advocate says. Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the government ways around it, but an even bigger battle over cryptography is brewing now, according to Sascha Meinrath, director of X-Lab, a digital civil-rights think tank launched earlier this year. One of the most contested issues in that battle will be net neutrality, Meinrath said.
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