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Occupy Fairbanks Protesters to Get Portable Toilet
Dorothy Chomicz, Fairbanks Daily News-MinerThe city of Fairbanks is going to allow the Occupy Fairbanks protesters to have a portable toilet. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/GAdg4s) says the city is allowing a toilet near the protesters' tent in Veteran's Memorial Park, but it...Tags: Politics, Protest
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Greenpeace Protesters, Lucy Lawless Board Shell Oil Drillship
Channel 2 NewsGreenpeace protesters, including actress Lucy Lawless, boarded a drillship in New Zealand contracted by Shell Oil that was about to depart for exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea Thursday. A Greenpeace press release says “Spartacus” and...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Lucy Lawless, Politics, Greenpeace, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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300 Arrested at Occupy Protests in Oakland
OAKLAND—
Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall in Oakland, California, following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Earlier, Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag,...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Arts, Arts and Culture, Occupy Wall Street, Politics
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Two Occupy Anchorage Protesters Arrested During Big Bank Protest
KTUU.comAnchorage police said two Occupy Anchorage protesters were arrested Saturday afternoon for trespassing after a demonstration inside the 5th Avenue Mall Downtown. APD said it received a report around 2:30 p.m. about a large disturbance. According to APD...Tags: Simon Property Group, Inc., Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Protest, Wells Fargo & Co.
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Local civil-rights activist remembers his journey -- and Alaska's
Staff WriterHistorians say blacks living in Alaska were more easily accepted here -- but the state's African-Americans still had a battle to fight. It takes just two words, "black history," and you'll hear the start to an endless round of stories amidst the eager...Tags: Louisiana, Social Issues, Alaska, History, Arts and Culture
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Carrs' first black worker recalls his rise through the ranks
Staff WriterWhen Alaska achieved statehood, it did so during the civil-rights movement. Alaska's first black dentist set up shop in 1958, and the state's first African-American was elected to public office in 1964. Between those two events, in 1963 Carrs was the...Tags: Social Issues, Employers, Public Employees, NAACP, Minority Groups
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Protesters ask Edison to decommission San Onofre nuclear plant
Environmental and anti-nuclear activists gathered at Southern California Edison headquarters in Irvine on Wednesday calling for the San Onofre nuclear plant to be decommissioned and for the utility to implement more extensive conservation programs. The...
Tags: Southern California Edison Company, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Politics, Nuclear Power
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Quebec tuition-hike protesters collide with disputed new law
World NowIn the throes of massive rallies against tuition hikes in Montreal, at least 100 protesters were arrested Tuesday night using a disputed new law that regulates protests and requires approved routes.... -
Garden Grove woman awaits husband's release from jail in Vietnam
World NowNguyen Quoc Quan was arrested a month ago upon arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, reportedly charged with terrorist acts linked to Viet Tan, a banned party pushing for democracy in the Communist country. The group says that the charges are fabricated and has... -
Let's go to the video -- Cameras everywhere subject police, protesters to further review
Change of SubjectThere will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, Or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance … There will be no pictures of pigs...... -
'Stroller Brigade' rolls out for Safe Chemicals Act
WASHINGTON — Moms, a few dads and some children gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to urge Congress to strengthen the federal government's powers to regulate harmful chemicals. The group of almost a hundred activists, which included registered...Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), U.S. Senate, Environmental Issues, Politics, Consumers
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Let's go to the video
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, Or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance … There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Chicago Police Department, Eric Zorn, YouTube, Politics
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