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Pubs cut prices in VAT protest
2013-09-25 10:53:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Thousands of pubs and restaurants are dropping their prices by 7.5% for one day in protest at current tax conditions.
Russia to charge Greenpeace activists with piracy over oil rig protest
2013-09-24 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russia has opened a criminal case against Greenpeace activists who boarded an Arctic oil rig belonging to energy giant Gazprom, and says it plans to charge them all with piracy, regardless of their nationality. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in a Russian prison. The Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise was apprehended last Thursday in what the environmental organisation says were international waters, near the Prirazlomnaya rig in the Pechora Sea. Russian coastguards stormed the boat after...
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BANGLADESH: Factories shut as workers protest over pay
2013-09-23 16:36:24| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Production at several hundred ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh came to a halt on Monday (Sept 23) as violent wage protests by workers entered their third day.
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Coal mining protest in British Columbia set to erupt
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: An increasingly tense standoff between a B.C. First Nation and a London, Ont.-based coal company in a remote mountain valley known as Sacred Headwaters is set to erupt as protesters flaunt their month-long presence on a drilling site and taunt the RCMP to arrest them. For the Tahltan First Nation, which has worked both with and against industry, the stakes are high: It is determined to halt the development of an open-pit coal mine in a spot it views as the land of origin, the birthplace of all...
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Greenpeace activists face piracy charges over Gazprom oil protest
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Russian authorities are threatening to bring criminal charges against Greenpeace activists, including an Australian man, over piracy for scaling an oil platform in the Arctic. Special forces officers armed with guns stormed Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, after the protest and locked up the activists. Tasmanian Colin Russell and British-born Australian resident Alex Harris are among several dozen activists onboard the ship, which is being towed back to the port of Murmansk under armed...
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