About a thousand G-20 protesters, mostly anarchist youth, took to the streets Thursday in a non-sanctioned march starting in Pittsburgh’s Arsenal Park. On Friday, a large protest sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center’s Antiwar Committee drew several thousand peaceful protesters. As of Saturday, authorities had reported 181 arrests during the two-day period, not including 14 Greenpeace activists.
A labor dispute in the heart of San Francisco reached a new level Thursday night as hundreds of hotel workers took to the streets in protest with some engaging in civil disobedience.
On Friday, hundreds of people from the town of Na’lin and international activists from Spain, Italy, Britain, Sweden and the United States participated in the weekly nonviolent march to the seperation wall erected by Israel. Eight people were injured by gas canisters shot directly into the crowds and three were arrested.
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