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check out the Neighbors West-Northwest Activist Newsletter

2013-08-10 01:02:59| PortlandOnline

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In Nebraska, Latest Foe of Keystone XL Pipeline is Former Nuclear Waste Site Activist

2013-07-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World-Herald Bureau: A leading opponent of a nuclear waste dump proposed two decades ago in Boyd County has joined the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. Lowell Fisher, who conducted a high-profile hunger strike against the nuclear dump, wrote a nonbinding resolution, passed Monday by the Boyd County Planning Commission, stating that the county doesn't want the crude-oil pipeline. Fisher, a 72-year-old rancher who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994, said he had a guilty conscience after initially deciding...

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Analyst sees Cessna parent Textron as target for activist investors

2013-07-23 11:35:04| Airlines - Topix.net

Robert Stallard , an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, believes Textron Inc. could be a logical choice for activist investors looking to restructure a company to maximize profits.

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Greenpeace Save the Arctic activist: 'Shell is in the shadow of the Shard'

2013-07-16 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: "I never felt scared, not even once. It wasn't until we were particularly high up it hit me, when we could see how close we were to the planes." Victoria Henry is at Mile End Climbing Wall, three days after she scaled the Shard, Europe's tallest building, for Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign. She's waiting to start her first indoor climbing session since scaling the tallest building in London, which seems ridiculously easy in comparison. As we sit in the reception, every person who walks in...

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