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Giant Bud Banner Half the Size of Football Field Flies Sunday Protesting Hydroponics Industry Cartel Monopoly that's Harming California's Medical Marijuana Patients

Hydroponics Company Flies Banner Half the Size of a Football Field With Giant MARIJUANA BUD to Protest San Francisco Indoor Gardening Expo Censorship that's Hurting Medical Marijuana Patients and Growers In California San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 26, 2009 -- San Franc...

Filipino Mothers Go Bare Protesting Against Milk Formula Companies

A group of Filipino women exposed themselves outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday in support of breastfeeding as milk formula companies launched a legal challenge against advertising restrictions . The 21 women, aged between 37 and 72, said they had all raised healthy children on natural br...

Doctors Medical Center Election Tainted

...gement opened door to NUHW organizing effort OAKLAND, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU UHW) is protesting the recent decision by the California Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) to allow the decertification election at Doctors Medical Center (DMC) in ...

Chicago Sit-In Highlights Laid-Off Workers, Employers' Obligations, and WARN Act, According to Outten & Golden LLP

... go with no insurance to pay for necessary prescriptions and recently obtained medical procedures for themselves and their families." Like the protesting Chicago workers, American employees who are let go suddenly in mass layoffs and shutdowns may have the right to 60 days advance written notice under t...

Child Care Chain Buyout Cause for Community Protests from Boston to L.A.

... child care. WHO: Local coalitions of parents, community leaders, union members and child care advocates. WHAT: Four rallies, four cities, one day protesting the Bain Capital buyout of Bright Horizons. WHEN: Thursday, July 31, at 12 p.m. (noon) in each location. WHERE: Boston (Bain Capital corporate h...

Home Care Workers, Seniors, Disabled From Across Massachusetts to Protest Poverty Wages, Lack of Health Insurance, Wednesday, June 18 at Office of Governor Deval Patrick

...s State House at Noon before marching on the offices of Governor Deval Patrick and his Secretary of Administration and Finance, Leslie Kirwin. WHAT: protesting the denial of health insurance for Massachusetts Personal Care Attendant (PCA) home care workers, poverty wages for home care workers, and high turnov...

Phony 'Physicians Committee' Suing Restaurants is Animal-Rights Trojan Horse, says CCF

...ounty hunter" law to sue "virtually every restaurant in the state of California that is not serving an all-vegetarian diet." Kinburn has also appeared protesting alongside PETA activists against the use of animals by medical research laboratories. A photograph of Kinburn participating in a PETA protest can be v...

Healthcare Workers Rally to Address Concerns About Layoffs and Quality Patient Care

...e-to-patient ratios are not always met, and one in three (34 percent) said they lacked necessary equipment or supplies on a regular basis. Members are protesting Tenet's cutbacks that will further compromise patient care. "We are concerned about patient care and our concerns have now escalated as a result of f...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

...esearch in Western countries. "I don't think my research will be used by the tobacco company to boost sales. I believe anti-smoking groups are protesting my research because it is funded by a US company," he said. ...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...rs .In Bangkok, AIDS activists rallied outside the U.S. Embassy on Thursday protesting the decision. Meanwhile in Brazil, the government has already refused...rder that they have to be placed under in-house medical care, are meanwhile protesting against discrimination. In the journal Public Health Reports, journalist...

protesting in Biological News

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

... Ecologists and philosophers across the nation are protesting a new and narrowed definition of "endangered speci...sk of extinction." The scientists and philosophers protesting the ruling say that the original law defined an en...ersity, have collected 38 signatures on the letter protesting the newly restricted definition of "endangered" or...

protesting in Biological Technology

Business blogs increase customer interactions

...ich can wear out after about 18 months. Feeling dissatisfied, New York-based independent filmmakers and brothers Casey and Van Neistat put out a video protesting the lack of a replacement program or other method of support by Apple. The video, posted at www.iPodsDirtySecret.com , contained the audio of a ph...