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"Environment Activists Blockade UK Newspaper Printing Plants" [1]

"LONDON — Police arrested more than 70 environmental activists who blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers on Saturday.

The group Extinction Rebellion said it targeted printworks at Broxbourne, north of London, and Knowsley in northwest England, that are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Dozens of protesters locked themselves to trucks and bamboo scaffolding to block the road outside the plants. The facilities print Murdoch-owned papers The Sun and The Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Financial Times."

The Associated Press had the story September 5, 2020. [2]

Activism [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Europe [5]
Public [6]
Source: AP [2], 09/07/2020
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environment-activists-blockade-uk-newspaper-printing-plants [2] https://apnews.com/c65effd1c5e322fd2d773713a55029be [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/europe [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81