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Sixty-seven-year-old George Tiller, a famous pro-choice activist and abortion doctor, was killed on Sunday, in a Reformation Lutheran Church in his Wichita, Kansas hometown. The police apprehended the shooter, a 51-year-old man, and are currently investigation whether he has any connections to pro-life groups that op... |
1 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The Japanese whaling fleet, which departed for its Antarctic hunting grounds in secrecy last year, has recently returned to port in shame, having only been able to capture little over a half its whale target of 950 minke whales and 50 humpbacks. Largely thanks to the efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (... |
13 April 2009
04:16 GMT |
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In addition to the momentous space achievement that the world saw today, as 13 astronauts flew in orbit at the same time, our planet will also see one of its largest and most popular movements in action. Earth Hour 2009 promises to be a grand event, in which more than 1 billion people from over 89 countries will be p... |
28 March 2009
06:28 GMT |
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According to the latest estimates, more than 2,000 cities around the world have joined Earth Hour, the international event that promotes action against global warming and climate change. Some one billion people are expected to participate in the initiative, a whooping increase from last year's 50 million. This y... |
26 March 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers advise people to turn off the lights in their homes and shops during this year's Earth Hour (EH), scheduled to take place on Saturday, the 28th of March, at 8.30 pm local time, regardless of where they live. More than 1,760 cities worldwide, in 80 countries, ... |
19 March 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Turkish authorities seem to have their own notions of free speech, as they proved on March 16th, when they actually deported two peaceful activists with the International Rivers environmental nonprofit group, who showcased a banner at the World Water Forum. The material said “No Risky Dams,” and was a dir... |
18 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Activists from Plane Stupid Scotland, an environmental organization opposed to the aviation industry, have recently blocked an Aberdeen airport, protesting against its expansion. The construction is funded and supported by Donald Trump, who wants to build a longer runaway, on which he and his rich friends can land th... |
4 March 2009
04:52 GMT |
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From the same series as the infamous Patriot Act, authorities in the US seem to be turning the country into a police state more and more every day. This has been made especially clear recently, when a group of four animal rights activists have been arrested as “terrorists” in the Santa Cruz and Alameda co... |
23 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The effects of global warming are generally known to the public, and everyone keeps saying that the problem needs to be tackled at an individual level. However, very few people know what tackling problems at an individual level means. In the case of college students, for example, the possibility of beer going “... |
16 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Seventeen members of the Everglades Earth First! environmental group were arrested Saturday on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, after camping out near the Barley Barber Swamp in Florida for more than a week. Their action was prompted by growing concerns that the Florida Power & Light (FPL) utility company... |
12 January 2009
07:04 GMT |
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On this year's Valentine Day, environmentalist action group Rising Tide and housing justice organization City Life/Vida Urbana are proposing to the American public to close their accounts at the Bank of America, on account of the fact that the financial institution keeps foreclosing homes of poor families, which... |
10 January 2009
07:14 GMT |
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As you know, Brandon Michael Darby, one of the figures that played a very important role in the Common Ground Relief organization, was recently proved to be an FBI informant, as he himself admitted in an open letter. An e-mail that arrived today at Softpedia from the grass-root organization tells their side of the st... |
9 January 2009
05:56 GMT |
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In a predictable move, Australia thoroughly dismissed Japan's requests of not allowing Steve Irwin, the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, to dock for refueling in any of the island nation's ports. The ship has been engaged in the pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet since the beginning of ... |
9 January 2009
02:57 GMT |
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In a recent turn of events, Common Grounds co-founder, Brandon Michael Darby, has come forward and announced that he has been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the past couple of years, although many details are still left out from his open letter. He publicly admitted being responsible for ... |
5 January 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Fernando “Dodong” Sarmiento, 39, was the Secretary General of Panalipdan-New Bataan, and a fierce critic of surface and open-pit mining, an opinion that led to his death, Francis Morales, the spokesman for Panalipdan-SMR, said in a statement. Over the course of 2008, Sarmiento was interrogated by elements... |
29 December 2008
05:52 GMT |
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It's amazing the lengths that policemen would go in backing up their claims, even if they are a complete fabrication of their paranoid minds. Even in the face of refutable evidence, they still argue on their behalf. Luckily for a New York Critical Mass participant, the assault that a cop “performed” ... |
16 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Rob Gilchrist, a member of Greenpeace, has been working for the New Zealand police department since 1998, supplying them with data about environmental groups such as GP, Peace Action Wellington and the Vegan Balaclava Pixies, as well as anti-Iraq War groups, civil rights groups and other such organizations. His girlf... |
15 December 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Earth Hour is an international direct action event where people from all around the world are asked to turn off their appliances, as well as their lights and everything electricity-consuming, for an hour. The initiative belongs to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and, thus far, more than 74 cities in 62 countries pledg... |
10 December 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Japanese officials recently announced that, if the environmental group Sea Shepherd interfered with its “scientific” harvesting of whales in the Southern Ocean, activists would be arrested and detained by authorities. The threat comes after a disastrous whaling season last year, when Japan's fleet wa... |
10 December 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Members of the environmental organization “Plane Stupid,” which focuses its efforts primarily on reducing the amounts of pollution that commercial flights emit in the atmosphere, invaded one of the runways of England's Stansted airport in Essex on Monday morning and chained themselves to the tarmac. ... |
10 December 2008
02:15 GMT |
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Australia was on Saturday host to numerous protests on climate change, totaling over 150,000 people who took to the streets, news agencies report. Brisbane and Sydney were among the cities with most citizens on their streets. The protesters carried placards and chanted slogans, urging the government to adopt measures... |
19 November 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Rotterdam's Mississippi harbor was completely blocked during this weekend, as two Greenpeace ships, the Rainbow Warrior and the Beluga II, prevented coal shipments on their way to the Netherlands from reaching their destination. The move was saluted by other environmental organizations as well. They said that th... |
17 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Early reports suggest that Challa Krishnamurthy, an Indian organic farmer, started growing his crops on a 20-acre surface, in an attempt to set an example of sustainable agriculture to the entire region. Supposedly, he was shot by a garbage truck driver who was illegally dumping residual waste on the farmer's pr... |
14 November 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Some 15,000 activists gathered along a train line in Germany, to protest against the continued use of nuclear energy in the country's 17 nuclear power plants. A shipment of depleted fuel came from France, carrying some 17 tons of used pellets, to be disposed of in a special facility, at the salt mines in Gorlebe... |
10 November 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Rising global warning awareness levels cause the most unusual forms of protests from worldwide teenagers. The most appropriate example for this is the Club du Neon organization in France, a group that aims at cutting back on emitted carbon levels through the powering down of neon signs that firms employ overnight. Th... |
10 November 2008
02:54 GMT |
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