Supporters of Iran’s defeated presidential candidate are reportedly staging another mass rally in Northern Tehran, despite Mir Hossein Mousavi’s urging that his supporters not risk clashes with demonstrators backing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
While hundreds of big business executives gather in Detroit this weekend for the National Summit—a conference on the future of manufacturing, technology, energy and the environment—hundreds more will be taking to the streets for the National People’s Summit and Tent City—a protest that will feature a prayer march, discussion groups, picket lines and tents, symbolizing the loss of homes.
Protesters in Peru shut down a gold mine on Monday over labor and environmental demands.
About 70 activists in Oregon protested plans to build a 12-lane bridge over the Columbia River connecting Portland to Vancouver, citing climate and air quality effects.
Hundreds of survivors of Italy’s April earthquake protested outside parliament today as lawmakers debated a bill authorizing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s reconstruction plan, which many fear will come too slowly and not meet their needs.
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