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NC protesters risk arrest to highlight concerns about GOP
The News & ObserverThe historians, doctors, preachers, lawyers, raging grannies, students and others gathered around the second-floor fountain inside the Legislative Building and belted out "This Little Light of Mine" and other songs. They were diverse in age and...Tags: Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, NAACP, Civil Rights, Music
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Students say Swarthmore has been soft on sex crime, and they're fed up
Philadelphia Daily NewsIN THE DARKNESS of night, the complaints were etched in chalk up and down the walkways of Swarthmore College, a 399-acre oasis of green quads and liberal student activism southwest of Philadelphia. "Welcome to Swarthmore," said one of the scribblings...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Media Industry
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Protesters say they want more than talk from Reynolds
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.Reynolds American Inc. was prodded by farm worker advocates Thursday to go beyond just pledging to improve health and labor conditions on North Carolina tobacco farms. The company provided its latest update on farm worker negotiations and initiatives at...Tags: Career and Workplace, Reynolds American Incorporated, Physical Conditions, Labor Legislation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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EPA continues to release producers' personal information
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) is appalled to learn that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to illegally release information on cattle operations to the activist groups Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Politics
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Convicted Y-12 protesters remain jailed while judge mulls legal options
Knoxville News SentinelThree Y-12 protesters convicted of obstructing the national defense apparently will remain in jail until at least next week while U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar considers whether they can be released pending their Sept. 23 sentencing. Thapar presided...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, National Government, Trials
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Five LGBT activists arrested outside Capitol
Austin American-StatesmanFive LGBT activists were arrested after state troopers say they blocked traffic outside the Capitol on Wednesday evening with a banner supporting a bill that would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Jeanne...Tags: Social Issues, Politics, Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups
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Federal jury finds 83-year-old nun, 2 others guilty of intrusion into nuclear weapons facility
Associated PressKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee and defaced a uranium processing plant. It took a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Defendants, Religion and Belief, Judges
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'Hit & Stay' looks to Catonsville Nine and beyond
Joe Tropea thought he was writing a research paper on the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic anti-war activists who set draft records ablaze outside a Selective Service office in 1968. But what he was really working on was a movie script. "I just got...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Charles Theatre, Entertainment, Catonsville
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Y-12 trespassing case may go to federal jury today
Knoxville News SentinelDefense testimony was expected to wrap up today with federal jurors likely hearing closing arguments in the trial of three protesters accused of breaking into and damaging property at the Y-12 nuclear security complex in July. Plowshares protesters...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Judges, Justice System, U.S. Military
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Alarm among activists after Malaysia kills nearly 100,000 monkeys
Tourists adore them. Homeowners bemoan them. And the Malaysian government has killed them –- by the tens of thousands. They are macaca fascicularis, mischievous monkeys with unusually long tails that give them their common name: long-tailed...
Tags: Bananas, Endangered Species, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, World Wildlife Fund
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Thousands in Russia demand new elections, release of prisoners
This post has been corrected. See bottom for details. MOSCOW — In the biggest show of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin since last May, thousands of demonstrators gathered Monday near the Kremlin to demand an immediate release of...
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Anti-nuclear weapons protesters on trial this week for incursion into Tenn. nuclear facility
Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An octogenarian nun and two codefendants used bolt cutters to cut through fences and spent about two hours inside a Tennessee national security plant that has had a hand in making, maintaining or dismantling parts of every...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Military Equipment, U.S. Congress, Defendants, Justice System
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