Producers of a documentary in Malaysia held a silent protest today to highlight media censorship. They read newspapers upside down while they marched through Kuala Lumpur.
On Saturday a spirited protest action was held in front of the Department of Labor, in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to demand the creation of a federally-mandated public jobs program, similar to the WPA, which was launched by FDR’s administration back in the middle of the Great Depression.
Thousands of people protested in Taipei on Saturday to call for the release of former president Chen Shui-bian and to support the Taiwanese independence movement.
Several hundred people gathered in London on Saturday to call for electoral reform. They wore purple and chanted “Fair votes now!”
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Defying a media blackout and severe backlash, Tibetan monks, nuns and residents of a threatened mountain community are showing the world their resistance to a Chinese dam.
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