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Three Arrested at Court Appearance for Protesting Fracking Infrastructure Storage Site
2013-04-18 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: More than 150 people packed the Town of Reading Court in New York on April 17 to witness what they believe is a shocking miscarriage of justice. Three members of a group dubbed the Seneca Lake 12--massage therapist Melissa Chapman of Schuyler County, farm owner Michael Dineen of Seneca County and Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author, biologist and distinguished scholar at Ithaca College--were sentenced to jail terms for their resistance to the heavy industrialization of the peaceful rural region...
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European Parliament blocks citizen e-mails protesting EU 'porn ban'
2013-03-07 23:45:54| CNET News.com
After European citizens began to complain en masse over a report proposing that porn should be banned in the 27-member state bloc, European politicians blew the whistle on their own IT department. [Read more]
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Direct Action Under Way Protesting Fracking Pipeline
2013-02-18 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Early this morning, two local youth engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience by locking themselves to the entrance gate of the Delaware State Forest in eastern Pennsylvania which is being used for access by pipeline workers to clearcut trees for the construction of the Northeast Upgrade Project of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline. Allison Petryk, of Vernon, NJ, and Alex Lotorto, of Milford, PA, have locked themselves to the entrance gate of the Delaware State Forest in eastern Pennsylvania which is...
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