A huge police presence, with officers on trail bikes, horses and in helicopters, spent yesterday afternoon defending Australia’s Hazelwood power station from about 500 environmentalists, 22 of whom made individual attempts to infiltrate the plant. All were subdued and arrested.
Austrian dairy farmers are on strike to protest falling milk prices and are planning separate actions such as tractor drives and milk giveaways also planned as well.
Dozens of fire trucks from the Israeli Fire and Rescue Services in Tel Aviv drove slowly in a convoy yesterday morning toward the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem to protest poor working conditions and a lack of equipment.
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