- A New Zealand man locked himself to a silo for a day this weekend in protest of factory farming. Police cut him down from the silo at a pig farm while animal-rights supporters watched.
- In Togo’s capital on Saturday, people gathered, as they have nearly every week since the March 4 election, to protest the re-election of Faure Gnassingbe, who took office fraudulently and whose father was a dictator.
- In Hollywood on Sunday, protesters marched for Social Security benefits for gay couples. 700 people marched and were ultimately told that legislation would be introduced to equalize benefits.
- At least two hundred people gathered at a San Francisco BART station on Saturday to engage in various forms of protest against police violence, in response to the killing of Oscar Grant last year by a police officer. People chanted “no justice, no rush!” and peacefully confronted BART law enforcement.
- Thirty to fifty Sri Lankan and Afghan men seeking asylum began a hunger strike in their camp in Sydney yesterday, in protest of Australia’s suspension on new asylum claims from those countries. They seek to meet with officials to discuss their cases and the policy.
- Workers and people with physical disabilities continued protesting outside of Cairo’s parliament yesterday. The sit-ins, which have lasted between 4 and 58 days so far, are in response to the closing of factories and Egypt’s lack of provision of handicapped housing.
- Dock workers in Iran protested after their company was privatized and their jobs were jeopardized. Several hundred people gathered in front of a central building and in prayer spot to protest the change.
- About 25 people gathered in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday to protest racial profiling done by immigration officials against Latinos. They said they want their city to become a “sanctuary,” where people who work and pay taxes are in no danger of deportation.
You might also want to check out this episode of This American Life looking at factory pig farming.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/tv-archives/season-one/pandoras-box
It’s insane that government thinks it has a right to tell homosexuals they cannot marry. But I have to think the demands being made in Hollywood are not radical enough.
Even if Social Security benefits are extended to homosexual couples, there are many people in many different relationship structures who do not get equal treatment. Nonviolent polygamists, for example, are marginalized just like homosexuals by the heavy hand of government. Ultimately, as long as we have “Social Security” and government licensing of marriage, we will not have equality. We need to do away with both.
Love & Peace