Communications worker union members marched through Johannesburg, South Africa demanding wage increases.
Women vendors in Nagamapal, India staged a sit-in yesterday to protest continued price hikes. The sit-in condemned a government official’s visit to the region and shops and businesses were also closed in protest
160 Russian tractor factory workers have begun a hunger strike after not being paid for five months. They are also fundraising for a plane ticket for President Medvedev to come and mediate.
A gay pride parade meant to protest rights violations against sexual minorities was violently disrupted by police in Belarus on Saturday.
People gathered in the Maldives last week, clad in red shirts, to protest rising electricity tariffs.
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