- American Indian activists marked Thanksgiving by holding a “Day of Mourning” in Plymouth, calling Plymouth Rock a monument to racism and genocide. Members of the United American Indians of New England have been holding the annual protest since 1970.
- 12 Greenpeace activitsts were arrested on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra yesterday after shutting down four cranes at a port run by one of Asia’s biggest pulp and paper groups.
- A dozen Chinese women related to some of the 104 miners killed in a recent blast protested outside the mine’s entrance on Monday in an effort to demand answers.
- 16 protesters who staged a sit-in at Canadian Labour Minister Rona Ambrose’s office in Edmonton to demand action from the federal government against climate change.
- More than 250,000 public sector workers went on strike to protest government plans to cut their pay, resulting in the closure of schools and limited hospital access.
I’m pleased to have discovered Waging Nonviolence. I invite you all to discover my website, http://www.AFutureWithoutWar.org, and to also follow me on Twitter at two pages, AFutureWOWar and also WagePeaceEndWar. One of the cornerstones of ending war will be work to promote nonviolent conflict resolution, and equally important will be using civil disobedience to confront the war machine. You guys are the experts on CD. I will be following your blog with much interest. Judith Hand, A Future Without War.org