Public sector workers went on strike across South Africa Tuesday, closing schools and wreaking havoc on a wide array of public services. As many as 1.3 million people were expected to walk off their jobs. Between 10,000 and 100,000 workers also demonstrated Tuesday across five provinces.
Dozens of construction workers building a subway in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, have vowed to begin a hunger strike today to demand three months of unpaid wages.
On Monday, a few dozen Embassy Suites workers who claim they are routinely denied breaks walked off the job in Irvine, California.
Anti-government protesters in Bolivia tightened their siege of Potosi on Saturday, launching a hunger strike and cutting rail links to Chile, as tourists began negotiating their way out of the mining city, 10 days into the blockade.
Nine protesters were arrested for blocking the main gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on Monday. They were among members and supporters of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, which holds an annual vigil at the base on the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A three-day strike launched on Monday by customs workers in Ivory Coast over benefits that have been withheld is blocking exports of cocoa from the world’s top grower of the beans.
“Nine protesters were arrested for blocking the main gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on Monday. They were among members and supporters of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, which holds an annual vigil at the base on the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
I humbly suggest that these 9 people peacefully protest P’unggyeri, North Korea the next time the PRK decides to test another weapon. If N.Korean weather is not to their liking, how about Qom, Iran or Islamabad, Pakistan.
What are the odds that these protesters know the reason WHY the bombs were dropped?
No rational person will say nuclear weapons are a good thing. Protesters like this fail to understand much less appreciate the infinitely more complex issues why each nuclear state has nuclear weapons and other states covet nuclear weapons.
“Nine protesters were arrested for blocking the main gate to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on Monday. They were among members and supporters of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, which holds an annual vigil at the base on the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
I humbly suggest that these 9 people peacefully protest P’unggyeri, North Korea the next time the PRK decides to test another weapon. If N.Korean weather is not to their liking, how about Qom, Iran or Islamabad, Pakistan.
What are the odds that these protesters know the reason WHY the bombs were dropped?
No rational person will say nuclear weapons are a good thing. Protesters like this fail to understand much less appreciate the infinitely more complex issues why each nuclear state has nuclear weapons and other states covet nuclear weapons.