- 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.
- Dozens of activists from 18 countries scaled smokestacks and occupied four coal-fired Italian power plants, hanging banners that called on the G8 summit in central Italy to take the lead in fighting climate change. Meanwhile, 15 environmentalists shed their clothes at the Spanish Steps in Rome.
- Up to 30 campaigners have dug themselves in at the Mainshill Wood Scottish Coal site in Douglas, Scotland to protest development of an open cast mine.
- Thousands took the streets of Lima, Peru yesterday for the second day of a national strike led by unions and civil groups to protest the free-market policies of President Alan Garcia.
- 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.
- Hundreds of employees of Yemenia Airline gathered outside the French embassy in the Yemeni capital yesterday to protest French “ambiguity” over the crash of one of its planes last week.
- 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.
