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Six Women Scale Europes Tallest Skyscraper to Protest Shells Arctic Drilling
2013-07-12 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climbers from Greenpeace successfully scaled the Shard in London, Europes tallest skyscraper, yesterday in protest against Shells plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. Six women began a bold free climb to the top of the building at 4:20 a.m., yesterday morning. When they reached the summit, at a height of 310 meters, they raised a huge banner proclaiming, "Save the Arctic." Greenpeace say the Shard was chosen because it sits in the middle of Shells three headquarter offices. The...
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Mattel's online Scrabble changes draw worldwide protest
2013-07-12 08:30:15| Toys - Topix.net
Some players of Mattel's Facebook-based Scrabble have their vowels all in a knot over changes the company instituted to the popular word game.
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The Shard protest isn't just about the Arctic: it's a victory for women, says Greenpeace
2013-07-11 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It was going to happen eventually. Attempting to climb the tallest building in Britain must be on the to-do lists of all avid climbers in Britain, and the world for that matter. That it is six women who are climbing the Shard in protest at oil and gas drilling in the Arctic today is not insignificant. Why six women? Why not a mixture of men and women, or - as many people might have been forgiven for assuming - six men? "Why not women? These are the people who discussed it and up for doing it,"...
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How to Protest Keystone XL Without Getting Arrested
2013-07-10 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Barbara Haws is a Brooklynite, but she was raised in Nebraska. The proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline would pass through her home state, and shes not happy about it. Her cousins--Nebraska farmers--are so unhappy about it that they chained themselves to the White House fence in protest and were promptly arrested. Haws herself chose a simpler form of protest: she took her protest sign out of her window and now carries it where she goes. She documented her travels and her cause in this video,...
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UMWA holding 14th Patriot protest in W.Va. Tuesday
2013-07-09 10:02:17| Energy - Topix.net
The United Mine Workers of America is bringing thousands of coal miners and their families to West Virginia for what will be the union's 14th protest over bankrupt Patriot Coal's plan to cut benefits.
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