In Chicago, 350 public school students walked out of class on Thursday and demonstrated in front of the Board of Education’s headquarters, City Hall and the Thompson Center to protest budget cuts.
Mass rallies took place across India yesterday, led by the Communist Party in protest of high prices on essential items and Congress’s failure to remedy the problem.
Also in India on Thursday, the province of Kerala nearly shut down in commemoration and protest of a massacre committed by Maoist rebels earlier this week. The closures of schools, businesses, and the government were in protest of the ruling party’s failure to prevent the violence.
As Indian minister Kamal Nath spoke inside a Manhattan building on Thursday, a group of NYC-based Sikhs gathered outside in protest. They say the minister facilitated mobs that killed 3,000 people, mostly Sikhs, in 1984.
On Thursday morning, employees at a children’s clothing factory in Warwickshire, England staged a sit-in and demanded an explanation after discovering their month’s wages had not been posted.
Last Saturday, up to 3,000 Dominicans marched in Cotuí to protest against the Pueblo Viejo gold mine, which is operated by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp.
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