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Treasury Wine Estates' 19 Crimes Chard and The Uprising - Product Launch
2018-04-27 18:19:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Treasury Wine Estates has added two new wines to its 19 Crimes brand.
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Algeria: fracking and the Ain Salah uprising
2015-03-14 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Deep in the Algerian Sahara, the oasis town of Ain Salah is a focus of opposition to a new wave of fracking, with violent confrontations between police and up to 40,000 protestors, writes Alexander Reid Ross. They have two main concerns: preventing pollution to the aquifer that sustains them, and keeping out foreign oil giants like Total and Halliburton. The new policy is playing fast and loose with the aquifer that sustains Ain Salah and its precious oasis - and it's the threat of pollution from...
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Dispatches from the Seneca Lake Uprising
2015-02-12 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: I told the guy at the wilderness outfitter store that I needed footwear appropriate for standing motionless in frigid temperatures with occasional bouts of below-zero wind chill. For possibly long periods of time. He asked if I was going ice fishing. There are no guidebooks for how to carry out a sustained civil disobedience campaign during winterlet alone one that involves human blockades that intercept trucks attempting to enter a compressor station site on a steeply sloping lakeshore with 18...
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01.04: More Than a Score: The New Uprising against High-Stakes Testing
2014-12-18 20:04:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
For too long, so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation's youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the "reformers" today find themselves facing the largest revolt in U.S. history against high-stakes, standardized testing. More Than a Score (Haymarket Books) is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews — accounts of personal courage and trenchant insights — from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education. Editor Jesse Hagopian will be joined for a panel discussion by Portland Association of Teachers President Gwen Sullivan, student leader and More Than a Score contributor Alexia Garcia, and Madison High School teacher and Rethinking Schools editor Adam Sanchez.
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Climate bear 'Frostpaw' says public uprising needed fight climate change
2014-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: "Frostpaw" - aka Peter Galvin - shares with DW the story of why he went to the climate actions dressed as a polar bear, what it was like being on the streets, and why public uprising is necessary for climate action. DW: Why did you participate in the people's climate train and the people's climate summit? Peter Galvin: I went there because I'm feeling real desperation. I'm 51 years old, and even in my short life, I've seen the planet change dramatically: flooding in the Philippines related...
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