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Two Arrested Protesting Strip Mine as Community Battles Worlds Largest Coal Company
2014-03-28 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: While Peabody Energy may have hired a notorious public relations firm to hawk its international ad campaign, a village trustee and her rural farming community have exposed the devastating legacy of the worlds largest coal company near its historic Illinois beginnings. Meet Judy Kellen and the courageous community of Rocky Branch in Saline County, IL, whose battle to save their farms, homes and cherished Shawnee Hills from Peabody Energys proposed strip mine expansion is turning out to be one of...
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Hundreds Arrested Protesting Keystone XL at The White House
2014-03-03 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Police arrested more than 370 young people who tied themselves to the White House fence on Sunday to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Called XL Dissent, the protest was organized by college and university students to urge President Barack Obama to reject the northern leg of TransCanada`s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which needs presidential approval because it would cross an international border on its way from the Alberta tar sands to refineries in Texas. Organizers...
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Hundreds Students Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL
2014-03-02 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: I just came back from the White House, where the police are still arresting the hundreds of students who are taking part in what will likely be the largest act of youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation. This is XL Dissent: a massive surge of protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and a powerful show of solidarity with all communities who are fighting the fossil fuel industry and confronting the impacts of the climate crisis. "An entire movement has thrown itself...
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Slideshow: Thousands Attend Vigils Last Night Protesting Keystone XL
2014-02-04 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last night, thousands of people attended more than 270 vigils around the country with this unified message: Keystone XL fails President Obamas climate test. The vigils were in response to the State Departments release on Friday of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Check out this slideshow representing a small sampling of the vigils: This video was tweeted last night by someone attending a local vigil. In addition to being an excellent...
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CAMBODIA: ILO "disturbed" by crackdown on protesting workers
2014-01-29 13:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has joined calls for an end to continuing violence in Cambodia, saying it is "deeply disturbed" by reports of another crackdown on protesting workers.
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