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26 min ago | Broward-Palm Beach

Activists Rally Against Koch Brothers Sun-Sentinel Sale; Say No to "Koch Problem"

See South Florida? We knew underneath all that sun-soaked apathy and cosmetic work you had some dormant activist ire.

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Related Topix: Tribune Company, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2 hrs ago | Canada.com

Canada spawns its own breed of investor activism

A business environment with fewer corporate and regulatory roadblocks than in the United States, and a natural reticence among established institutional investors to push for change unless the circumstances are extraordinary, has meant challengers have often come from outside Canada.

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Related Topix: Canada,

5 hrs ago | KHOU-TV Houston

Chinese Bear Bile Farming Draws Charges of Cruelty

It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to shrink gallstones, reduce fevers and sooth the aftereffects of excessive drinking.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Animal Rights

Tue May 21, 2013

The Guardian

Iran cracks down on activists in runup to election

Iran has launched a public crackdown on dissent before next month's presidential election, executing two men charged with espionage and waging war against God, arresting a group of activists and summoning campaigners for questioning.

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Related Topix: Journalism

CBS News

JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum

Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase voted Tuesday to let Jamie Dimon keep both the chairman and CEO roles, but they signaled that the bank needed better oversight, giving only narrow approval to three of the bank's board members.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Law

AmmoLand

New Mobile Tool Combining Digital Activism With Gun Rights

Firearm ownership and gun control are intense social and political topics in the United States today, and individuals on both sides are looking for a way to support their rights and views and reward those businesses that agree with them.

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Related Topix: Guns

The Village Voice

How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War

One of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Animal Rights, Fannettsburg, PA, Agriculture, Science

Creative Loafing Tampa

Environmental Activist Bill McKibben speaks at Eckerd College's 2013 Graduation

Sunday, May 19, marked the Silver Anniversary of the annual Eckerd College graduation commencement in Saint Petersburg.

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Related Topix: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, Environment, Science, Alternative Energy, Energy, Pinellas County, FL

Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

Chen Guangcheng: we must not wait for a "virtuous ruler"

Blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, made headlines around the world when he escaped house arrest and fled to New York with the help of U.S. officials.

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WLOX-TV Biloxi

Tylertown puppy mill busted, official: "worst I've ever seen"

The Walthall County Sheriff's Department along with The Humane Society of the United States are in the process of raiding a puppy mill with approximately 80-100 dogs, living and dead, on Magee Hill Road outside of Tylertown.

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Related Topix: Tylertown, MS, Walthall County, MS, Humane Society of the United States, Charitable Organizations, Pass Christian, MS

US News & World Report

Adam Kokesh Arrested at Marijuana Rally

Adam Kokesh, co-chair of Iraq War Veterans Against the War, announces plans for a mass march against the war in September 2007.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs

Robert Sharp

Joannah Lumley on Human Rights Campaigning

After my panel discussion at the Liberty Conference, I stayed around to hear Joannah Lumley interviewed by Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Tri-cityherald.com

Russia targets pollster for 'political activity'

Levada Center published a letter, dated last week, from prosecutors who said its polls and publications are "aimed at shaping public opinion on government policy" and demanded it cease publication until it registers as a "foreign agent" under a law passed last year.

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Related Topix: Vladimir Putin

Reuters

U.S. pesticide makers seek answers as bee losses sting agriculture

Monsanto Co is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the American diet.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Monsanto, Science, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Biotech, Bayer AG, Entomology, Life, Food, Vegetables

Inter Press Service

Q&A: "Video Puts the Human into Human Rights"

The opportunities are endless to document human rights violations," Chris Michael, head of training and partnerships at WITNESS , tells IPS.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Peter Gabriel, Pop/Rock

Queerty

Man Arrested After Threat To Turn Puerto Rico Pride Into Another Boston Marathon-like Bombing

Joseph Morales Serrano has been arrested in Puerto Rico by the FBI after making a threat on Twitter to Pedro Julio Serrano , a well-known gay rights activist and suggesting the country's Pride celebration would resemble April's Boston marathon bombing.

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Washington Examiner

PETA says IRS targeted it too, during Bush years

New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House.

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Related Topix: Tax, W., George Bush

Salon

How Guantanamo affects China: Our human rights hypocrisies

In May 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner were poised to make a rare double visit to China for a high-level strategic and economic dialogue.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Sun May 19, 2013

BBC News

Syria army storms rebel-held town

Heavy fighting is reported in the besieged Syrian town of Qusair after state forces launched a major offensive to re-capture the rebel stronghold.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Lebanon, Terrorism

Philly.com

Connie Williams, 72, East Camden activist

Connie Williams, 72, a community activist who worked with children and police to keep her East Camden neighborhood safe, died early Saturday, May 18, of lung cancer.

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Related Topix: East Camden, AR