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Vets Mark Foot and Mouth Anniversary by Protesting Budget Cuts
2016-02-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - On the 15th anniversary of the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has emphasised the vital role of vets and veterinary surveillance in protecting the UK from devastating disease outbreaks.
Australia: Bob Brown arrested protesting against logging in Tasmania
2016-01-25 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bob Brown has been arrested at a forestry protest in Tasmania, making him the third person charged under Tasmanias tough new anti-protest laws. The former Australian Greens leader and founder of the party was arrested at an area of state forest marked for logging at Lapoinya in north-west Tasmania on Monday. The arrest was announced on his Twitter account. Brown was processed at Burnie police station and released. The area is designated forestry land and has been selectively logged before...
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Protesting workers force Air France managers to flee
2015-10-05 20:13:59| Airlines - Topix.net
The White House is announcing the designation of two new National Marine Sanctuaries - the first chosen in 15 years - as part of President Barack Obama's efforts to protect the environment. Hurricane Joaquin is locked in a dance with an extraordinarily heavy rainstorm that is already drenching the Carolinas.
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Twin Cities janitors on strike, protesting alleged wage theft
2015-06-09 17:23:17| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Janitors who clean more than 50 Twin Cities big box stores, supermarkets and auto dealerships walked off their jobs Tuesday morning to protest alleged wage theft by a third-party custodial services contractor. Workers from Service Employees International Union Local 26 and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha began picketing at 6 a.m. outside Macy's in downtown Minneapolis.
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U.N. wont let protesters say what theyre protesting
2014-12-12 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Speaking to a packed tent of delegates, diplomats, and journalists at the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru, this afternoon, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry didnt mention the Keystone XL pipeline by name. Neither, it turned out, could the young American activists who had set up a protest outside of the tent. Curiously, U.N. officials (or the secretariat, as they call it here) had insisted that the protestors strip all mentions of Kerry and Keystone from their signs and banners....
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