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Same-Sex Couples Arrested at SF City Hall
2013-02-15 22:00:12| IT Services - Topix.net
In what has become a sad, wistful annual Valentine's Day ritual, a bevy of same-sex marriage couples were taken into brief custody by San Francisco sheriff's deputies after trying -- and failing -- to obtain marriage licenses on Thursday, according to reports.
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RFK Jr. arrested: Celebs, enviros arrested at Keystone pipeline protest
2013-02-15 03:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Celebrities and environmental activists, including lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and civil rights leader Julian Bond, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune also was arrested -- the first time in the group's 120-year history that a club leader was arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved the action as a sign of its opposition to...
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Activists arrested at WH over climate change protest
2013-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Dozens of environmental activists - including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and actress Daryl Hannah - cuffed themselves to a White House gate on Wednesday in a climate change protest that ultimately resulted in their arrests. Chanting, "President Obama, we don't want no climate drama!" activists demanded concrete government action on the issue. Their first hope: the Obama administration's rejection of the controversial Keystone Pipeline XL. "We're out here saying, 'President Obama, you must reject the...
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10 arrested at protest of Patriot bankruptcy case
2013-02-13 22:21:41| Energy - Topix.net
Louis, the second time in two weeks that the United Mine Workers of America organized a huge protest to draw attention to the possible loss of pension and health care benefits for about 20,000 retired miners and dependents.
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Arrested Development: Housing Plans Near Gold Line Monrovia Stop Not Totally Dead
2013-02-13 01:08:22| Real Estate - Topix.net
The giant Station Square development proposed for the future Gold Line station in Monrovia is not happening and a huge lawsuit over its death may be on its way out as well, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune .
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