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Why Today's Fast Food Wage Protests Won't Force Companies To Pony Up
The movement for higher wages in the fast food industry is gaining widespread attention and public support, but it's unlikely to change workers' paychecks any time soon.
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Facebook blocked in Thailand to prevent anti-army protests
Social networking site Facebook was temporarily blocked in Thailand on Wednesday afternoon in an attempt by the country’s information technology ministry to stop anti-army protests being organised.
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The best of #AskChevron: Protesters engineer a brilliant P.R. disaster
Currently trending on Twitter: #AskChevron, a veritable P.R. disaster in which the denizens of social media call the company out for ongoing contamination in the Ecuadoran Amazon tied to decades of oil pollution.
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22 Staggering Images Of Brazil's Indigenous Tribes Taking On The Riot Police With Bows And Arrows
Resplendent in tribal headgear and body point, with bows and arrows held aloft, aiming their weapons at Brasilia's riot police, these indigenous protesters took on horse-mounted riot police armed with tear gas and shields. These were the extraordinary scenes just hours before Brazil's World Cup team began their training for the tournament, as the índios attempted to force their way toward the capital's National Stadium, firing arrows and throwing rocks.
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Springtime in Tiananmen Square, 1989
While teaching English in Beijing, I witnessed one of the most tumultuous protests in modern history.
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Thousands rally in Melbourne against proposal on doctor visit co-payments
About 2,000 protesters have staged a noisy but peaceful rally in central Melbourne against the Federal Government's proposed $7 Medicare co-payment.
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Over 100,000 form human chain demanding Basque independence vote
At least 100,000 people have formed a 123-kilometer-long human chain in support of a regional referendum on the Basque Country’s independence from Spain.
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NYC Settles With 14 Occupy Protesters for $583K
The city has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to settle allegations that police wrongfully arrested a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters, marking what their lawyers Tuesday called the largest settlement to date in a single Occupy-related civil rights case.
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Uber sign-ups soar by 850 percent as cab drivers protest
Uber sees an 850 percent jump in sign-ups, while cab drivers across Europe protest the taxi-hailing app by going on strike. Experts call the strike against Uber "PR gold" for the app.
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Taxi drivers to bring London to a standstill over row with Uber
Anti-Uber taxi drivers will go ahead with today’s planned protest, beginning in Trafalgar Square at 2pm, despite failing to meet with London Metropolitan Police. Timed to coincide with similar protests around Europe, the plan is to shut down parts of central London by parking their taxis in the street.
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Uber offers black cabs work as London brought to standstill
Uber, the taxi-booking app and self-employed cabbie enabler, has experienced an 850 percent increase in sign-ups today as a result of protests by London black cab drivers bringing the capital to a standstill. As if that wasn't enough salt in the wound, Uber has now extended an olive branch to TfL-registered cabbies by offering them a place on their books. Bold move.
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World Cup 2014: Tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades on the streets of Sao Paulo as tournament begins
The final hours of build up to the most eagerly but most nervously anticipated sporting event in decades began with tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades fired down the streets of Sao Paulo, as the promised and much feared protests materialised, where there was hope that they wouldn't.
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Brazil World Cup protests: teenager dies as a million people take to the streets
Brazil World Cup protests: A teenager has been killed and 12 others injured as ongoing protests in Brazil turned violent after another night of demonstrations in more than 100 cities.
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Dying to save the Amazonian rainforest
An environmental campaigner is killed every week in Brazil. Jonathan Watts and Karina Vieira travel to Lábrea in the heart of the Amazon to meet the people risking their lives
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How So Many Football-Loving Brazilians Ended Up Hating the World Cup
Brazilians may love football. But many of them are not welcoming the World Cup, costing their unequal country $11 billion, without a fight.
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Chinese dog-eating festival backlash grows
A southern Chinese city kicked off its annual dog-eating festival over the weekend amid a fierce backlash by animal rights groups. Activists estimate that about 10,000 dogs are slaughtered at the summer solstice event, in which thousands of locals and tourists consume barbecued, stir-fried and boiled dog meat served alongside lychees and grain alcohol.
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China official cancels events in Taiwan amid violent protests
China's top official in charge of relations with Taiwan has returned to Beijing, hailing his visit to the self-ruled island as historic, despite violent protests that forced him to cancel
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Passions run high as Hong Kong marches for democracy
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday, many calling for the city's leader to be sacked.
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The tech industry made the Bay Area rich. Why do so many residents hate it?
The tech industry made the Bay Area rich. So why do so many residents hate it? What’s going on in San Francisco has been called a “culture war,” and yet the values each side espouses can sound strikingly similar.
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Clashes in Paris as thousands march against Israel offensive
Clashes erupted in Paris on Sunday as thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of residents in the Gaza Strip, where a six-day conflict has left 168 Palestinians dead. Several thousand demonstrators walked calmly through the streets of Paris behind a large banner that read "Total Support for the Struggle of the Palestinian People".
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