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Should Animal Rights Activists Be Held Accountable For Abuse Videos?
2013-11-25 23:36:35| Beef
A popular tactic of animal rights extremist groups is to send a member undercover to obtain temporary employment in a livestock operation. Once on board, they can gain the trust of coworkers, move freely about the operation and surreptitiously shoot footage of any animal abuse they might be able to uncover. This surveillance often takes place over weeks while the activist collects footage, which is packaged and then released to the media. Of course, during this time of collection and production of the items for the big press splash, any animal abuse that might be actually occurring continues. BEEF Daily read more
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Former Co-op Bank boss Flowers held
2013-11-22 07:21:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former chairman of UK's Co-op Bank Paul Flowers arrested in connection with "drugs supply investigation", the BBC understands.
130 Climate Change Rallies Held Across Canada
2013-11-17 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Organizers say more than 130 protests against climate change were staged across Canada Saturday, with the largest gathering held in Vancouver where participants showed their opposition to Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. The protests were part of a national day of action to "Defend Our Climate." Outside Vancouver's Science World, nearly 1,000 participants held colourful signs while chanting and singing slogans, while others pounded on drums and played the bagpipes. Rally participants...
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Climate rallies held across Australia
2013-11-17 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An estimated 60,000 people have attended rallies across Australia in one of the largest ever displays of support for action on climate change. Labor and Greens politicians, alongside volunteer firefighters and environmental activists, took turns at the Climate Action Day to lambast the Coalition government, which will table bills in parliament on Monday to dismantle carbon pricing. Around 25,000 people gathered on Sunday in the Melbourne sunshine, with Labor's environment spokesman, Mark Butler,...
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Protests held at UK petrol stations in support of Greenpeace activists
2013-11-16 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Greenpeace protesters gathered at petrol stations across the country on Saturday to plead for the release of 28 activists and two journalists from a prison in Russia. The Arctic 30 were arrested after protesting at an oil rig in international waters off the coast of Russia in September and face criminal charges. Greenpeace is protesting at Shell outlets in the UK following reports that the company is to join with Russian oil giant Gazprom in drilling off the Arctic shore. In a letter handed...
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