- New York City performance artist Rev. Billy Talen was arrested on Sunday after placing a “holy hex” on JPMorgan Chase, which he calls the nation’s largest financier of coal-mining mountaintop removal.
- A group of homeless people and housing activists took over a privately owned Mission District duplex in San Francisco on Sunday in what served as the climax of a protest designed to promote use of San Francisco’s vacant buildings as shelters for the needy.
- 21 people were detained after crossing the line at the entrance of the Nevada Test Site on Easter Sunday as part of the annual Sacred Peace Walk, a six-day 62 mile trek from Las Vegas to oppose the dangers of nuclear testing.
- Activists have held rallies across Russia to protest Putin’s decision to reopen a Soviet-era paper mill beside the world’s largest freshwater lake.
- Greenpeace activists in The Netherlands chained themselves to the mooring ropes of a container ship bound for Japan with whale meat onboard last Friday. Rottderdamport police have agreed to keep the ship at the port, while its owner has decided to off load the meat rather than become complicit in the trade of an endangered species.
- Hundreds of teachers in Florida gathered at the state capital in Tallahassee on Monday to protest a controversial education reform bill passed by the state legislature that links pay raises for teachers to students’ test scores.
- United Airlines flight attendants around the world were out picketing Tuesday, including a protest at Denver International Airport, to show their discontent over long hours and no contract.
