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nwitimes.com
March 16, 2018
Clifford Ramer, an East Chicago resident, rallies with dozens of others Thursday night in East Chicago to decry systemic racism and kick off a regional and statewide Poor People's Campaign. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started the first Poor People's Campaign in 1968 before his assassination.
TheTyee.ca
March 9, 2018
I don't remember when that particular fear was replaced by other more immediate catastrophes — environmental collapse, global pandemics, what ... In Vancouver, the founding of Greenpeace was sparked by Vancouver Sun writer Bob Hunter, who cobbled together a bunch of raggedy hippies and an oldÃâà...
CBC.ca
February 18, 2018
In September 1975, Greenpeace activists Bob Hunter and Paul Spong, who had been waging an international campaign against commercial whaling, implored Barrett to intervene to prevent the whale's transfer ... Federal environment officials had issued permits to capture and move the whale, Colby said.
Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2017
Bob Hunter, who ran the flood program from 1974 to 1979, said it was originally designed only to protect existing structures that were left without ... The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy organization, found nearly 10% of damage from flooding comes from properties that haveÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
July 26, 2017
Bob Hunter of the environmental group WaterWatch is not convinced. “Walking wetland system certainly has provided the refuge manager with a tool to make an awful situation a little better than it is,” Hunter says. It will take far more than a change in the way crops are irrigated to satisfy Hunter and otherÃâà...
Standard-Examiner
May 23, 2017
Bob Hunter will step down as president and CEO of United Way of Northern Utah in March. JANAE FRANCIS, Standard-Examiner Staff. OGDEN — After 17 years at the helm of United Way of Northern Utah, Bob Hunter will step down as president and CEO. His plans to leave the nonprofit will finalize nextÃâà...
YorkRegion.com
October 23, 2016
On Oct. 22, at the opening ceremony of the Bob Hunter Memorial Park, his wife Bobbi Hunter along with his daughter Emily, his son Will, his daughter-in-law Veronica and his granddaughter River were joined by dignitaries, representatives from Parks Canada and the Toronto and Region ConservationÃâà...
AdNews
May 19, 2016
This Sunday marks International Bio Diversity Day and it got me to thinking about a small group of friends and ecological trailblazers from Vancouver, who defined the modern environmental movement of the 70's that would go on to become globally recognised organisation, Greenpeace International.
Toronto Star
January 24, 2016
A decade after the death of Greenpeace co-founder, a Toronto professor is on a mission to reframe his legacy — not just as an activist and journalist, but .... Hunter's family was seeking someone to deliver the 10th annual Bob Hunter Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto's school of the environment.
One Green Planet
October 7, 2015
Today, Greenpeace is more than just the most visible environmental organization in the world with offices in over 40 countries, but an iconic brand and ... Even before the Internet or social media had been invented, Bob Hunter, one of Greenpeace's founders, knew that if they could stage an epic protest outÃâà...
The Guardian
June 11, 2015
The phrase was coined by Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter, who was one of the men standing in the speedboat in front of the Russian whaler during that first anti-whaling voyage in 1975. Hunter was one of the first to understand the power of a viral image to power environmental change. Rothwell saidÃâà...
Toronto Star
April 26, 2015
The writings and heretofore-unseen Greenpeace footage of Hunter, the quietly charismatic journalist-cum-activist and Greenpeace's first president, form the ... characters that swirled into the formation of the Vancouver-spawned Greenpeace, now one of the largest environmental organizations on the planet,Ãâà...
