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Don't Tase Me, Man!
Protesters arrested outside N.C. coal plant |
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01 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:52 AM on 01 Apr 2008 Eight protesters were Tased and arrested after locking themselves to bulldozers at a Duke Energy coal plant in North Carolina Tuesday morning. Activists say the plant under construction is, in short, a terrible idea. "In the face of catastrophic climate change, building a new coal plant is tantamount to signing a death sentence for our generation," said one protester. Umbrella group Rising ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, grassroots activism, news, North Carolina (all these topics) |
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