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Anti-Keystone Protest Vigils Planned

2014-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

United Press International: A consortium of U.S. environmental groups said a chorus of voices will let President Obama know the Keystone XL oil pipeline "fails his climate test." The Sierra Club, anti-Keystone group Bold Nebraska, the Natural Resources Defense Council and more than a dozen other environmental groups scheduled "protest vigils" across the country Monday to oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline. "This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to send the message to President Obama that Keystone XL fails his climate test...

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Cablevision employees slam CEO James Dolan during protest

2014-02-02 21:19:49| Telecom - Topix.net

Brooklyn Cablevision workers demanded fair wages Saturday, slamming owner James Dolan as a stingy, corporate fat cat hell-bent on intimidating their union.

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Philippine climate change envoy leads new protest fast

2014-01-31 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A Philippine diplomat who went without food for 14 days last year will lead another fast on Saturday in a bid to pressure world leaders over climate change, AFP reported. Naderev "Yeb" Sano, the Philippines' lead negotiator at United Nations climate talks, drank only tea and water throughout the last meeting in Poland in November, garnering world headlines and praise from developing nations. Sano's latest symbolic one-day hunger strike is an attempt to maintain pressure ahead of the next UN talks...

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GMO critics protest at Monsanto meeting; resolutions fail

2014-01-29 03:15:45| Chemicals - Topix.net

Critics of genetically modified crops protested at Monsanto Co's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, calling for the world's largest seed company to provide a report on contamination in non-GMO crops and to stop fighting mandatory labels on foods containing GMO ingredients.

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