{"id":1657,"date":"2007-06-02T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T09:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/02\/toxic-avengers-target-target\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T11:47:07","slug":"toxic-avengers-target-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/02\/toxic-avengers-target-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic avengers target Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/22\/30_22targettoxins.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070604_target.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/070604_target.jpg\" title=\"070604_target.jpg\" alt=\"070604_target.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Environmentalists \u2013 some in hazmat suits, some in tank tops \u2013 protested outside of Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall on May 24, decrying the discount chain\u2019s refusal to phase out the sale of some vinyl products, which are believed to release dangerous toxins into the environment. The protestors, from Wetlands Activism Collection, a New York\u2014based organization, pointed out that plenty of Target\u2019s competitors, like Wal-Mart, Nike, Microsoft, Ikea, and H&amp;M, have already begun phasing out the destructive products. Simultaneous protests were held in 200 locations throughout the country. Image source: The Brooklyn Paper \/ Adrian Kinloch<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>USA <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\"><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=5\"><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Target<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Wal-Mart<\/a>, Nike, Microsoft, Ikea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">H&amp;M<\/a><span class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/span><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/22\/30_22targettoxins.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Brookly Paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists \u2013 some in hazmat suits, some in tank tops \u2013 protested outside of Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall on May 24, decrying the discount chain\u2019s refusal to phase out the sale of some vinyl products, which are believed to release dangerous toxins into the environment. The protestors, from Wetlands Activism Collection, a New&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,113,22,65,12,19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hm","tag-ikea","tag-microsoft","tag-nike","tag-target-corp","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}