- Four climate activists chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia yesterday to protest mountaintop removal mining. Four more joined them to unfurl banners. All were arrested.
- Protests took place outside BBC offices in half a dozen cities throughout the UK yesterday over the appearance of white-supremacist leader Nick Griffin, head of the British National Party. In London over a 1,000 people attempted to prevent him from entering BBC headquarters for an interview, but were stopped by police.
- The AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Pink Cross Foundation have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels to protest the chain’s selection of adult films that feature sex without condoms. They’re calling the protest a “Porn In.”
- More than 500 union members and health care activists gathered outside a meeting of the giant health insurance lobby group, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), to protest its efforts to kill reform.
- Seven busloads of union members from around New Jersey lined the streets near the entrance to a recently opened Walmart in Raritan on Tuesday to protest anti-worker and anti-community practices by the national discount chain.
- A group of ministers are planning to protest in a church across from a soon-to-be-opened Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in Lincoln Park, Michigan. They’re aiming to counter the bright lights of the strip club with their own light show when it opens next week.
