- More than 90,000 people rallied in Okinawa, Japan on Sunday against the relocation of an American military base to the area.
- More than two thousand people protested in Phoenix on Friday against the passage of the new Arizona immigration bill, which demonstrators said will lead to civil rights abuses. The demonstrations continue and even Congressman Raul Grijalva is asking people to boycott his state to protest the law.
- On Saturday in Berlin, tens of thousands of people joined hands to protest against nuclear energy. The human chain, organized by a group of environmental, political, youth, religious, and union activists, stretched 75 miles and urged Germany to close its nuclear plants.
- In Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday, thousands of people protested a new deal extending Russian military presence into the former Soviet Republic.
- Activists gathered last week in Washington, DC to protest the annual IMF/World Bank meetings. They used some unusual tactics, including a 5K run and tug-of-war, in addition to rallies.
- A hundred residents of a community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia gathered on Saturday to protest plans for a drainage system that would impact homes without compensation from the government.
- More than 150 people protested at military recruiting sites in Minnesota on Friday. Activists unfurled banners that read “Jobs not war” and marched across campuses during “Zero Recruitment Day.”
- Day laborers and domestic workers protested in San Francisco on Saturday in an ongoing movement against a “no sit/lie” city ordinance.
- Hundreds of people marched on Saturday to protest the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City. The closure means one fewer ER in Manhattan as well as one fewer home-birth friendly hospital.
- Several hundred people gathered in New York on Friday to protest a limit on the number of vendors who can sell art in city parks.
- A group of Armenians demonstrated near the White House this weekend, asking President Obama to recognize the Armenian genocide and stop Turkish military force against Kurds.
- Artists gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday to creatively demonstrate against the indiscriminate destruction of green areas in their city.
