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Unionized Kroger workers hold protest in Portsmouth

2015-04-11 05:28:57| Grocery - Topix.net

As Kroger prepares to close it's High Street grocery store, the affected employees are trying to keep their jobs in Portsmouth. The Kroger location will close Saturday, and more than 80 union workers will be transferred to a new union store in Yorktown, 25 miles away.

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Californians In Hazmat Suits To Protest Oil Industry Aquifer Exemption Workshop

2015-03-25 05:51:13| oilandgasonline Home Page

Hazmat suit-wearing demonstrators with Californians Against Fracking will protest recently outside a state-run “aquifer exemption” workshop in Long Beach aimed at helping oil companies get federal permission to dump oil waste into California’s underground water.

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Students occupy Swarthmore college fossil fuel divestment protest

2015-03-19 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Student activists have occupied a historic hall at Swarthmore College, the alma mater of the United Nations climate chief, demanding the university cut its ties to fossil fuels. The sit-in at the liberal arts college in Pennsylvania launches a new wave of protests by campus divestment campaigners across the US that will culminate in an old-style teach-in at Harvard on 13 April. Some 37 students and six alumni entered the finance and investment office of the university at about 9am on Thursday....

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