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Documentary revisits music and activism of Nina Simone
2015-07-03 03:41:44| Apparel - Topix.net
Kanye West sampled her; Chanel made her into a jingle; and President Barack Obama called her song "Sinnerman" one of his 10 favorites. But for a woman whose music is so widely admired, Nina Simone has long been misunderstood.
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Campaigning for the climate: activism, arrests and hopes
2015-06-16 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When I was a student at Edinburgh, we used to protest at the career fair every year. One time, Esso [ExxonMobil] had got someone to set up their stall, but their staff failed to show up. My sister and I put on our best suits and staffed the stall for the morning, giving students an honest appraisal of what it was like to work for a company whose work is bound up with brutality, corruption, murder and planetary destruction the world over. After hours of these conversations with students, the poor...
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Environmental activism works, study shows
2015-06-15 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The environmental movement is making a difference - nudging greenhouse gas emissions down in states with strong green voices, according to a Michigan State University (MSU) study. Social scientist Thomas Dietz and Kenneth Frank, MSU Foundation professor of sociometrics, have teamed up to find a way to tell if a state jumping on the environmental bandwagon can mitigate other human factors - population growth and economic affluence - known to hurt the environment. "…
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Environmental activism in the U.S. is popping up in a surprising place
2015-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: A showdown between oil and gas companies, pro-drilling politicians, and a newly formed grassroots environmental group is brewing in South Carolina. In late January, the Obama administration proposed to sell oil and gas leases for federally controlled areas in the Atlantic Ocean. But in South Carolina opposition to offshore drilling quickly emerged. A group called SODA POP, short for Stop Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic -- Prevent Oil Pollution is active in the Grand Strand, a strip of coastal...
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Thai Enviros Pay for Activism on Toxic Dumping, Coal Plants with Their Lives
2015-04-06 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Environmental activist Jintana Kaewkao confronts a member of the Forestry Department in Bangkok, Thailand, about the suspicious way forest land near her village was acquired by the owners of a steel plant. Jintana Kaewkao, a 53-year-old activist, shop-owner and mother of three, arrived at the district government office on March 12 ready for a fight. With local tensions rising over the planned construction of a steel manufacturing plant amid the wetlands and coconut trees of this seaside community...
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