- On Monday, nine citizens in Des Moines, Iowa were arrested at a protest for the creation of single-payer healthcare, the establishment of healthcare as a human right, and an end to the deadly practices of Iowa’s largest health insurance company, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
- Thousands of municipal workers went on strike Monday across South Africa to demand higher wages, and 27 were reportedly arrested as police broke up protests.
- Registered nurses and hospital workers at facilities owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp., represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) and SEIU, organized a national protest to oppose attempts to cut their access to sick leave.
- More than 70 percent of the members of the Prison Officers Association, the union that represents prison staff in Ireland, have voted to strike as a dispute with management over their working terms and conditions intensifies.
- On Monday morning, one hundred Palestinian children marched from the village of At-Tuwani to a village called Tuba along a path where illegal Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian children and shepherds, as well as international human rights advocates.
- After an 8-year-old boy was shot Saturday in a blighted northeast Las Vegas neighborhood, residents held a rally to protest violence against children.
