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Campaigning for the climate: activism, arrests and hopes
2015-06-16 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When I was a student at Edinburgh, we used to protest at the career fair every year. One time, Esso [ExxonMobil] had got someone to set up their stall, but their staff failed to show up. My sister and I put on our best suits and staffed the stall for the morning, giving students an honest appraisal of what it was like to work for a company whose work is bound up with brutality, corruption, murder and planetary destruction the world over. After hours of these conversations with students, the poor...
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Good News! Ben Carson Is Campaigning Against the Debt. Bad News? Wella .
2015-05-08 17:25:03| IT Services - Topix.net
Outsider could wage a Ross Perot-style crusade against the national debt, if only his tongue would get out of the way It's safe to say that Ben Carson , the celebrated neurosurgeon and inspirational speaker who announced his presidential candidacy Monday, will not win the GOP nomination. Not only because the lone political novice to win a major party's presidential nod since World War II was the more familiar-to-Americans Dwight Eisenhower , but because Carson is running on his inexperience and rhetorical dazzle after seven years of a previously inexperienced president made originally famous by his speeches and books .
First Drip (10/28/14): Campaigning, Bananas, and Who's watching your mail
2014-10-28 16:48:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
A voting flyer depicting police targeting a black person in the "Hands up, don't shoot" stance and captioned "This won't ever stop until we vote" was mailed to households in Charlotte ahead of November's mid-term election. The image was accompanied by text referring to Ferguson, Missouri and saying voting could stop police harassment, brutality and unjustified deadly force against black youth.
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United Kingdom: Green groups signal willingness to defy campaigning crackdown
2013-08-30 02:35:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Some of the UK's green NGOs could be willing to break the law if the government passes its controversial Lobbying Bill in its current form. Fears are mounting across the NGO and think tank sector that the new legislation, which receives its second parliamentary reading next week, will place draconian restrictions on their activities in the year before an election. The proposed regulations were originally designed to require corporate lobbyists to sign up to a public register, but they were subsequently...
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