Twelve members of Greenpeace were arrested for hanging a banner on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore yesterday to protest global warming as the G-8 summit in Italy begins.
Students, indigenous leaders and environmentalists from around Australia gathered yesterday at the head office of a mining company in Melbourne to protest plans to open a new uranium mine.
More than a hundred people marched in Washington yesterday to protest the Chinese government’s rough treatment of ethnic Uighurs in western China, where a reported 156 died during a clash with police on Sunday. Although, Uighurs believe that number to be much higher.
70,000 South African construction workers began an indefinite strike on Wednesday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup, to demand for a pay raise.
Fifteen demonstrators were arrested in front of the governor’s office in Sacramento, California yesterday when they refused to leave their protest against potential budget cuts to departments that serve the disabled.
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