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Steingraber and Boland Sentenced to 15 Days in Jail for Protesting Methane Gas Storage
2014-11-21 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Renowned author, biologist and advocate Sandra Steingraber, PhD, U.S. Air Force veteran Colleen Boland (retired) and avid environmentalist Roland Micklem headed to the Chemung County jail Wednesday evening after pleading guilty and refusing to pay a fine in New Yorks Reading Town Court. Judge Raymond Barry issued the maximum jail sentence of 15 days. Steingraber, Boland and Micklem were arrested for blockading the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstreams gas storage facility on the shore of...
Market Basket co-CEOs threaten about 200 protesting workers with termination
2014-08-13 05:49:18| Grocery - Topix.net
This poster of fired Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas in the fish case at a Market Basket store in Tewksbury helps explain why only a few jars of pickled herring are what's available on these shelves as protesting employees continue their effort to bring him back.
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Market Basket co-CEOs threaten about 200 protesting workers with termination
2014-08-13 05:49:17| Grocery - Topix.net
This poster of fired Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas in the fish case at a Market Basket store in Tewksbury helps explain why only a few jars of pickled herring are what's available on these shelves as protesting employees continue their effort to bring him back.
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UPDATE: BANGLADESH: Protesting garment workers receive payment
2014-08-08 16:41:32| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Threats of a nationwide strike at clothing factories across Bangladesh appear to have abated after protesting garment workers accepted an offer to pay them two-months of back wages.
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3 Arrested Blockading Train Tracks Protesting Oil-By-Rail
2014-07-28 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Three Seattle area residents were arrested today after blockading train tracks at an oil facility at Tesoros Anacortes Refinery. The protestors were demanding an immediate end to the shipment of Bakken oil through Northwest communities, all new oil-by-rail terminals proposed for the Northwest and Clean Air Act violations by oil refineries. Thursdays derailment was the last straw, said Jan Woodruff, an Anacortes resident who was blockading the tracks. If federal and state regulators wont...
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