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United Kingdom: Climate activists receive sentences for gas-fired power station occupation
2013-06-06 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Twenty-one climate change activists were sentenced on Thursday for aggravated trespass after occupying a gas-fired power station last year. Sixteen of the activists were given community service orders of 150-200 hours, while the other five received 18-month conditional discharges. The activists occupied EDF's newly built West Burton power plant in Nottinghamshire in October, with several protesters remaining strapped to a cooling tower at the site for more than a week, the longest such occupation...
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BANGLADESH: Activists calculate compensation costs of EUR54m
2013-05-24 14:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Labour rights groups estimate that more than EUR54m (US$71m) in long-term compensation payments are due to victims of the Rana Plaza factory complex collapse in Bangladesh last month.
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BANGLADESH: Activists put compensation costs at EUR54m
2013-05-24 14:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Labour rights groups estimate that more than EUR54m (US$71m) in long-term compensation payments are due to victims of the Rana Plaza factory complex collapse in Bangladesh last month.
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Syrian activists' Facebook pages said to be shuttered
2013-05-23 04:35:19| CNET News.com
A handful of profiles and pages on the social network, which have been gathering places for Syrians to discuss their country's civil war, have mysteriously disappeared. [Read more]
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Climate activists to protest at Obama groups climate events
2013-05-23 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Barack Obamas advocacy group, Organizing for Action, has been calling out Republican climate skeptics in Congress, but climate activists are not impressed. They`re planning to crash OFA events and push the group to fight the Keystone XL pipeline. 350.org and CREDO Action, the political arm of the company CREDO Mobile, are leading the charge. OFA is bracing for it. From BuzzFeed: OFA circulated a set of talking points to its members for use in dealing with unruly activists. The document, obtained...
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