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"No Planet B", marchers worldwide tell leaders before UN Climate Change Conference
2015-11-29 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNA: More than half a million people from Australia to Paraguay joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history on Sunday, telling world leaders gathering for a summit in Paris, there is "No Planet B" in the fight against global warming. In the French capital, where demonstrations were banned by the authorities after attacks by Islamic State militants killed 130 people on November 13, activists laid out more than 20,000 shoes in the Place de la Republique to symbolize absent marchers on...
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Climate Marchers Gather to Show Rousing Support for Pope
2015-06-28 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of the Apostolic Palace, where he delivers an address each Sunday, he was met by the usual cheers and by an unusual forest of bright green oversized paper leaves. Had he been able to read what was written on the leaves which he could not because he was too far away the pope would have found quotes from Laudato Si, or Praise Be to You, his encyclical on the environment published this month. The leaves were among the colorful props carried by...
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Marchers Demonstrate Against Police Brutality
2015-04-08 03:23:50| Agriculture - Topix.net
Demonstrators took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to demand justice in police shootings. John Cadiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at Noon on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
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United Kingdom: Climate change marchers told to hire private security firm
2015-02-07 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The right to stage demonstrations in Britain could be threatened following a demand that climate change protesters planning a march next month hire a private firm to oversee it a role previously carried out by the police. The Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) says it is effectively being made to pay to protest, after learning that its demonstration in London, which could attract up to 20,000 people, will carry a bill of thousands of pounds. Following negotiations with the Metropolitan...
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Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights
2014-12-11 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rights experts and civil society groups issued an open letter on Wednesday to ministers attending U.N. climate talks in Lima, urging governments to enshrine "human rights for all" in the new global climate deal due to be agreed at the end of 2015. At the same time, thousands of Peruvians and indigenous people from the Andean and Amazon regions marched shoulder to shoulder with climate activists from around the world on the traffic-choked streets of Lima. They called for urgent action to tackle...
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