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Whole Foods Workers Strike In Protest Of Working On Thanksgiving
2013-11-28 11:56:04| Grocery - Topix.net
About ten workers will go on strike at two Whole Foods stores in Chicago on Wednesday to protest having to come to work on Thanksgiving, Salon's Josh Eidelson reports.
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Reverend Billy faces year in jail for JPMorgan Chase toad protest
2013-11-25 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An actor who uses comic theatre and music to persuade corporations to address climate change faces a year in prison after the largest bank in the US took offence. In June, Billy Talen and eight members of the Church of Earthalujah choir walked into the lobby of a Manhattan branch of JPMorgan Chase in New York. Dressed as central American golden toads, a species that has been made extinct as the result of climate change, they told the staff that they were about to perform "expressive politics"....
New Zealanders Protest Anadarko Oil Drilling, Protest Ship Vega Stands Guard
2013-11-25 13:06:07| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
New Zealanders launched a protest against the deep-sea oil drilling of Anadarko Petroleum off the North Island's west coast.
Arctic 30 captain re-evaluates protest methods after Russian jails
2013-11-24 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When armed Russian coast guards descended on to the Arctic Sunrise from helicopters and screamed at everyone to get on the ground, Captain Peter Willcox took it as just another day at work. The 60-year-old American has a long history of entanglements with law enforcement across the world, and has been arrested at various times in Turkey, the Philippines, Peru and Denmark. He was also the captain of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior, which was bombed by French special forces in 1985, not...
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Citizen groups walk out of UN Climate Summit to protest lack of ambition
2013-11-21 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia, Japan and Poland blamed for sabotaging UN Climate Summit talks. Thirteen citizen groups-including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF-have walked out of ongoing climate talks in Warsaw to protest what they view as a lack of ambition and long-stalled progress on combating global climate change. Nearly 200 governments are currently meeting in Warsaw, Poland at the the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is meant to prepare the...
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