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On third anniversary of Tunisia's Arab Spring, protestors gather with similar message
2013-12-17 12:08:28| IT Services - Topix.net
Tunisians' "Day of Rage" protest echoed similar calls for political and economic reforms from Tunisia's Arab Spring demonstrations in 2011 In honor of the third anniversary of the start of the Arab Spring, Tunisians gathered for a "day of rage" at the birthplace of the region's revolutions, according to Agence France-Presse.
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Canada: Protestors alarmed by Line 9, climate change
2013-11-17 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Waterloo Record: Armed with placards, homemade banners and other protest signs, demonstrators descended on MP Peter Braid's office Saturday to draw attention to climate change, the oil sands and the contentious Line 9 pipeline project. The group, which numbered about 50, solicited the occasional honk from passersby as they huddled on the sidewalk in Uptown Waterloo. The gathering was one of about 125 similar protests across the country organized on the weekend by Lead Now. They're worried about environmental...
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Protestors hang giant 'Post-it Note' off Mpls. bridge
2013-10-08 00:21:15| Chemicals - Topix.net
Two protesters will likely face charges after dangling from a gigantic 'Post-it Note' they hung off the Washington Avenue Bridge near the University of Minnesota Monday.
Today's pygmy protestors are no heirs to Martin Luther King
2013-08-29 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The rhetoric of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech remains electrifying, as tributes this week to the poetic genius of those words spoken half a century ago have reminded us. But how should we gauge its legacy? The march by 250,000 people on Washington DC that day in 1963 wasn't for freedom alone, it was also for jobs. Then, two in every five black families in the US lived below the poverty line. Today, a quarter still do. For all the explosion of wealth since King's death, millions of...
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Protestors oppose government snooping
2013-07-05 13:36:23| IT Services - Topix.net
Demonstrations took place today in more than 100 cities Thursday calling for the federal government to back off its spying on U.S. citizens.
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