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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

10,000 Birds

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. 27, August 2018, Vol. Official Sierra Club Grassroots Network Campaign – social media actions. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right?

Texas 156
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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Guinness Brewery: Guinness Draught

10,000 Birds

But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s. John Gilroy, the S.H.

Campaign 101