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N.S. in denial on racial profiling, first black lieutenant-governor says
2016-03-31 21:36:43| Grocery - Topix.net
Nova Scotia's first black lieutenant-governor says the province is in a state of denial when it comes to racial profiling, saying she has often been the victim of "shopping while black" since she left her viceregal post four years ago. Mayann Francis says she decided to speak out this week after Nova Scotia-based grocery chain Sobeys Inc. announced it will appeal a human rights inquiry decision that found one of its Halifax stores discriminated against a black customer.
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Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funded Climate Denial Group
2016-03-03 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a group best known for filing lawsuits seeking climate scientists` personal emails, has secretly received funding from Arch Coal, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S. The funding is revealed in documents recently filed as part of the Arch Coal bankruptcy proceedings which list the coal company`s creditors. The Arch funding is revealed just months after Alpha Natural Resources, another coal company facing bankruptcy, was identified...
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Why a Rockefeller Donated $400,000 in Exxon Shares to Nonprofits Fighting Climate Denial
2016-02-26 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: Divesting shares from companies or even nations involved in reprehensible practices has a long history. In the 1960s, a divestment movement emerged to protest South Africa, ultimately playing a key role in the ultimate dismantling of the country`s apartheid system. Today, nations such as Iran, Israel, Northern Ireland, Myanmar and Sudan are targets of similar divestment campaigns. In the corporate world, no other sector has been targeted so heavily by an international divestment campaign as the...
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The science _for_ climate change only feeds the denial: how do you beat that?
2016-01-26 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: As the scientific consensus for climate change has strengthened over the past decade, the arguments against the science of climate change have been on the increase. Thats the surprise finding of a study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change last month, which analysed and identified the key themes in more than 16,000 publications about climate change by conservative organisations. Conservative think-tanks are organisations that oppose policies, such as regulation of pollution...
Two irrational responses to climate change: Witch hunts and denial
2016-01-24 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In late August 1589, a dozen of the fittest ships in the Danish fleet set across a tempestuous North Sea to carry a 14-year-old princess bride to her new husband and new home. King James VI of Scotland had seen Anna of Denmark only in a miniature portrait before arranging a marriage by proxy in her country. Following her wedding-sans-groom in a palace by the sea, Anna boarded the ship of Danish Admiral Peter Munch to travel to her Scottish kingdom. They met typical storms until close to Scotland,...
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