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United Airlines Employees Union Pickets to Protest Outsourcing
2013-08-28 22:10:04| Airlines - Topix.net
Despite its 2010 merger with Continental Airlines, United has not reduced jobs at the combined carrier to the degree one might have expected.
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United Kingdom: Fracking: police reduce operation in Balcombe as protest slackens
2013-08-22 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Police have begun to scale down their operation at an anti-fracking protest site in west Sussex after four weeks of demonstrations. Many of the activists who descended on Balcombe to protest against an exploratory drilling site recently opened by energy company Cuadrilla have now left the area, Sussex Police said. A spokesman said about 120 people are estimated to still be at the roadside camp on London Road at the entrance to the location, while most people had left the Reclaim the Power camp...
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Greenpeace Icebreaker Denied Entry into Kara Sea to Protest Oil Exploration
2013-08-22 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Russia has blocked the entry of a Greenpeace boat into its waters, the environmental activist group said Wednesday, suggesting that its attempts to stage a peaceful protest were blocked in order to hide the extent of a oil exploration program in operation by Exxon Mobil and Russia's energy giant Rosneft. Greenpeace said its icebreaker Arctic Sunrise was repeatedly denied entry into the portion of the Kara Sea where the joint oil exploration endeavor is underway offshore north of western Siberia....
Fracking protest at Balcombe: 'People just seem to be looking for a party'
2013-08-21 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: An unwanted mob had descended on the Balcombe protest camp yesterday, swarming en masse through police lines and fiercely resisting all attempts to squash them. "Bloody wasps,' frowns 40-something protester and mother-of-three Ioonah Woods, watching one of the insects greedily burrowing into a jar of marmalade with all the gusto of a Cuadrilla drill. "They weren't a problem a few days ago but now they have invaded.' Quite who is, and who is not, entitled to be in Balcombe is all the talk in...
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Green MP Caroline Lucas arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest
2013-08-20 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: People are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action Hundreds of activists blockaded the Balcombe oil drilling site in Sussex owned by the fracking company Cuadrilla, as well as its Lichfield headquarters and the offices of its PR firm in London. Demonstrators hung banners at the country home of the Conservative Lord Howells, who stirred controversy by suggesting the "desolate" north should be fracked, and attempted to put up a small wind turbine at the home...
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