Last Thursday, 54 people were arrested in nine different cities around the country at sit-ins in front of the offices of health insurance companies. The actions were organized by Mobilization for Health Care for All. Their next nationwide day of action will be October 28th.
On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman.
More than 600 convicted prisoners went on hunger strike in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Friday to protest the excessive burden of work as they were unable to pay illegal gratification to the new jail administration.
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Defying a media blackout and severe backlash, Tibetan monks, nuns and residents of a threatened mountain community are showing the world their resistance to a Chinese dam.
Drawing on a long legacy of forest defense in the Northwest, members of the direct action group Troublemakers halted a controversial timber sale in Washington.
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