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Sri Lanka workers protest at FTZ anti-union discrimination
2016-07-08 16:04:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
More than 3,000 members of Sri Lanka's independent trade unions have demonstrated against severe anti-union discrimination in the country's Free Trade Zones (FTZs).and that these
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Al Gores daughter arrested at climate protest
2016-06-30 20:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al Gore, was among 23 activists arrested in Boston on Wednesday while protesting construction of a natural gas pipeline. The nonviolent demonstration, organized by the group Resist the Pipeline, also included more than a dozen faith leaders and longtime activist Tim deChristopher. "We were arrested because the laws and policies regarding climate change are so out of step with what is required to meet this challenge," Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth...
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The Latest: Al Gore proud of daughter arrested in protest
2016-06-30 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Latest on the arrest of former Vice President Al Gore's daughter during a protest of a Boston pipeline (all times local): 4:40 p.m. Former Vice President Al Gore says he's very proud of his daughter, who was arrested during a protest at a pipeline under construction in Boston. Karenna Gore was arrested with 22 others on Wednesday during a protest at Houston-based Spectra Energy Corp.'s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. They oppose the project because of safety and climate change concerns....
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Al Gore's daughter Karenna Gore arrest protest against Houston Spectra Energy pipeline
2016-06-30 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Organizers say the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore was among 23 people arrested during a protest of a Boston pipeline under construction. The arrests happened Wednesday at the site of Spectra Energy's West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. Forty-two-year-old Karenna Gore was among demonstrators that tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench. Protest organizers say Gore and others facing resisting arrest charges will be arraigned Friday, while others facing trespassing...
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Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Stands With Anti-Pipeline Group to Defend Protest Tactics
2016-06-18 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alternet: An environmental group fired back at a Republican Senator who singled them out at a committee hearing on Tuesday for employing tactics which he insinuated were on par with terrorism. The organization, Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), in turn accused Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) of McCarthyite, fear-mongering tactics when he targeted them during a Senate hearing related to oil and gas pipeline permitting. While the Republican national security hawk painted BXE as extremists, Jill Stein, presidential candidate...
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