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Campaigners gear up for runway fight
2015-05-18 01:05:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is ready for a legal battle over any new runways at Heathrow or Gatwick airports.
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Climate change campaigners finish fast
2015-05-17 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marlborough Express: Bill and Robbie McEwan who have ended their Climate Change sit-in at the Blenheim Band Rotunda after a week of fasting. The father and son pair were raising awareness of climate change. A father and son who fasted for seven days and nights in a call to action over climate change have ended their fast weak but resilient. Blenheim's Bill McEwan, 70, and his son Robbie McEwan were joined by around 50 supporters at a break-the-fast morning breakfast at the rotunda in Blenheim's town centre on Sunday....
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Campaigners call for Rana Plaza fund completion
2015-04-30 15:02:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Campaigners are calling on fashion brands and retailers to pledge the final US$2.7m needed to hit the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund target.
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Climate campaigners losing faith in value of engaging with fossil fuel firms
2015-04-07 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its been 23 years since investor activists first tried to get the oil business to face up to the risks of climate change. Progress has been painfully slow and gains have been few. Now many campaigners have concluded that engagement is not delivering anywhere near fast enough: it is time to sever ties with fossil fuel companies. Engagement is useless, said Bevis Longstreth, a securities and exchange commissioner during the Reagan administration, who has signed on to the divestment campaign by...
NYC climate campaigners follow up blockbuster march push for city action
2015-03-19 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The folks who brought you the massive Peoples Climate March in September are now turbocharging New York Citys efforts to combat climate change. Activists and some of their allies in city government laid out an ambitious climate agenda Monday night in an unassuming locale: the basement of the downtown Manhattan office of municipal employees union District Council 37. With brownish-orange linoleum floors and a gray dropped ceiling, set in a stocky brown brick building, it does not seem like the...
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