The satirical Billionaires for Wealthcare group marched alongside the tens of thousands of conservative activists in Washington DC on Saturday. The self-described “grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, HMO lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others profiting off our broken health care system” joined the march to “thank the teabaggers for protecting health-care industry profits.”
Hundreds gathered at a Philadelphia area shopping mall on Saturday to protest a video arcade run by the military, which also uses it as a recruiting station. Six of the activists were arrested.
Greenpeace embarked on a 15-day journey with five elephants yesterday in Thailand that it’s calling The Chang(e) caravan. Chang is Thai for Asian Elephant, a species that is facing imminent extinction due to loss of forest cover. The aim of the caravan is to call upon world leaders, Barack Obama in particular, to take immediate action to avert climate chaos.
Two climate change activists from the Climate Rush group were arrested Sunday after breaching security at Oxford Airport in Britain. They were taking part in a protest picnic against the airport’s expansion, when they decided to jump over a fence to reach the runway area.
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Here’s a previous write-up about opposition toward that Philly military centre –
http://phillyimc.org/en/regional-effort-grows-shut-down-army-experience-center