- Activists with Witness Against Torture gathered yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol to protest the voided deadline President Obama set for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo. Some held banners on the Capitol steps reading “Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives,” while others performed a “memorial service” for the three detainees whose deaths were covered up by the military. 42 were arrested.
- About 500 villagers from the Afghan province of Ghanzi chanted slogans against the United States and the Afghan government as they carried the wooden coffins of four recently slain civilians by NATO forces to the provincial capital.
- Three environmentalists in West Virginia set up tree-top platforms 60-feet in the air Thursday morning to protest a mountaintop removal blast site run by Masset Energy.
- About 100 inmates at the Varick Federal Detention Center in Lower Manhattan refused to go to the mess hall on Tuesday morning and gave guards a flier declaring they were on a hunger strike to protest detention policies and practices.
- 1,200 employees at the Indian unit of mobile handset maker Nokia Corp. in Mumbai went on strike yesterday to protest the suspension of some of their colleagues.
- Thousands of French public sector workers went on strike yesterday and took part in demonstrations across the country to protest plans for job and spending cuts.
- Hundreds of ship builders went on strike yesterday to protest 370 layoffs and the outsourcing of some operations at STX Finland’s shipyard in southwestern Finland.
- Several hundred UC Berkeley staff, students, and faculty held a noon rally on Wednesday to protest UC administration plans to privatize bus service at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 14 were arrested after they linked hands and surrounded a shuttle bus.
