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Coke pulls offensive Christmas ad but faces backlash from indigenous rights group
2015-12-06 06:29:57| Beverages - Topix.net
Coca-Cola is under fire for an advertisement unveiled in Mexico, focusing on the indigenous Mixe community, that some believe struck a racist, colonialist and offensive tone. The ad features a group of model-like white teens driving to a remote community of Totontepec in the country's southern Oaxaca state, where they build a Christmas tree in a town square and begin handing out bottles of Coke.
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A coalition of businesses launch push for LGBT civil rights protections
2015-12-04 18:48:32| Agriculture - Topix.net
By Amanda Creech Indiana Tourism Association, Hirons, Eli Lilly and more than 150 other businesses in Indiana launched a coalition known as Indiana Competes - a group aiming to add civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Hoosiers to state law. "Make no mistake, what happened last March really damaged Indiana's reputation," said Marya Rose, chief administration officer of Cummins.
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Spanish football rights awarded to Mediapro, Telefonica
2015-12-03 09:00:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Spain's top-tier La Liga football league has announced the results of its auction for rights to broadcast La Liga matches over the next three seasons, awarding the packages to Mediapro for EUR 1.90 billion and Telefonica's DTS unit for EUR 750 million. In what was the first UK-style collective auction for live TV rights, Telefonica lost the exclusive rights to broadcast La Liga from 2016/17 to 2018/19. Its package gives it the right to screen just one exclusive game per match day, albeit the top game, plus a second division game. Mediapro, on the other hand, won the exclusive rights to screen eight La Liga games on pay-TV channels, plus all the games of the Spanish domestic cup competition (Copa del Rey) except the semi-finals and final.
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Telefonica wins less than a third of 2.65bn La Liga rights
2015-12-03 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Spanish telco agrees to pay 750 million for rights to broadcast top-flight football.
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Proposed law may remove indigenous land rights in Brazil
2015-12-02 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Maria Valdenice Nukini believes it's her duty to protect her ancestral territory in northern Brazil and raise awareness of the role indigenous communities play in protecting nature. That's why she recently traveled 4,700 kilometers from her isolated reserve in the northern state of Acre to Rio de Janeiro to protest oil and gas exploration that may take place near her community, located on the border with Peru. "Brazil is so big and there are so many other places to look for gas. Why do they want...
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