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Published by Associated Press | By Brian Melley | Tuesday, November 21, 2000

In time for Thanksgiving, the United Farm Workers union ended its 16-year ''Wrath of Grapes'' boycott Tuesday -- halting the longest of its three California table grape boycotts.

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Published by Environment News Service | By Brian Hansen | Monday, November 20, 2000

The aerial fumigation program that has grown out of the U.S. government's so-called ''war on drugs'' is endangering the fragile ecosystems and indigenous cultures of Colombia's Amazon Basin, a coalition of groups warned today at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

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Published by | By CorpWatch | Monday, November 20, 2000

THE HAGUE -- It is virtually an unspoken irony here that the climate change negotiations are taking place in Royal Dutch Shell's home town. Shell, one of the world's largest oil corporations, is responsible for a great deal of global warming gasses.

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Published by Associated Press | By Pierre-Antoine Souchard | Monday, November 20, 2000

In a landmark ruling, a French court on Monday ordered Yahoo! to block French Web users from its auction sites selling Nazi memorabilia.

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Published by | By CorpWatch | Sunday, November 19, 2000

THE HAGUE -- In sharp contrast to the formal climate negotiations, representatives of communities affected by the fossil fuel industry, countries threatened by global warming's rising tides and grassroots groups working for international environmental justice opened the First Climate Justice Summit today.

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Published by Associated Press | By Dirk Beveridge | Wednesday, November 15, 2000

President Clinton sought to nudge economic globalization forward Wednesday by calling for new world trade negotiations by 2001 -- a deadline developing nations are resisting.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Kenny Bruno | Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Shell wants you to believe that they're working to curb climate change. But Greenwash Guru Kenny Bruno takes a deeper look at Shell's latest ad campaign and finds they're full of hot air.

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Published by Environment News Service | By Frederick Noronha | Monday, November 13, 2000

Over a thousand environmental protesters today stormed police barricades in New Delhi, and marched up to the offices of the World Bank, demanding they be allowed to meet with visiting Bank president James Wolfensohn.

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