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Paris climate deal needs solidarity on loss and damage
2015-11-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Solidarity. It will be top of all participants minds at the upcoming climate summit in Paris. As more than 130 world leaders descend on the French capital, there is no doubt that recent terrorist attacks will lend solemnity and additional pressure for a successful climate deal. Many will consider a successful agreement an act of solidarity with the French Presidency, and the French people. Theres another group with whom it is crucial to seek solidarity in agreeing the new international climate...
France confirms COP21 climate summit will proceed, diplomats praise solidarity
2015-11-15 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: French and UN officials say plans for the 2015 UN climate summit in Paris will continue, despite Friday nights terror attacks that left over 130 dead and 300 injured. Profound emotion receiving so strong support to maintain #COP21. Humanity, courage, solidarity winning over fear and terror, tweeted the countrys top climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana. Of course #COP21 proceeds as planned. Even more so now. #COP21 = respecting our differences & same time acting together collaboratively,...
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Ferguson, USA solidarity in Britain
2015-01-30 19:43:42| Trucking - Topix.net
THE WORLD would not have woken up to what is happening to black families in America if the people of Ferguson had "just gone back home" after unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot by a police officer , said a leading US black civil rights campaigner. Patrisse Cullors, co founder of the group Black Lives Matter, was speaking in Birmingham on a UK-wide Ferguson Solidarity Tour where she stressed that "change will not happen until people force it to happen".
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Google Joins Charlie Hebdo Solidarity Movement
2015-01-09 16:28:00| TechNewsWorld
Google has donated nearly $300,000 to help French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo make its largest print run ever, following Wednesday's massacre at the magazine's Paris office. Its normal production run numbers about 60,000 copies, but the surviving staff plan to print a million issues next week. A number of media outlets also have pledged to help keep the publication alive.
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Park Electrochemical CEO takes 20 percent salary cut in 'solidarity' with workers
2014-12-04 17:12:03| Chemicals - Topix.net
Brian Shore, the chief executive of Park Electrochemical Corp., is taking a voluntary 20 percent salary cut in solidarity with Park employees in California and Arizona who are working reduced hours, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday. Shore, 63, who stands to give up more than $70,000 of his fiscal 2014 salary of $357,760, also said that he plans to donate his 2014 $40,000... Brian Shore, the chief executive of Park Electrochemical Corp., is taking a voluntary 20 percent salary cut in solidarity with Park employees in California and Arizona who are working reduced hours, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday.