Residents of Madrid demonstrated on Monday in support of workers who are hurt by cyclical economic downturns. They used the slogan, “Against the Europe of Capital, War, and Crisis.”
People planted 6,000 hands marked “1000” on a Rio de Janeiro beach in Brazil this past weekend in commemoration of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. The planter-protesters are asking Brazil’s president to discuss human rights when he meets with Iran’s president, a Holocaust denier, later this week.
Five students wearing caps and gowns staged a sit-in protest at Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson yesterday to protest the Arizona immigration bill and to ask specifically for a path to citizenship for young immigrants. At least one of the protesters has been jailed.
Last week, Mexicans in the town of Apaxco demonstrated against a toxic waste processing plant built in their town a year ago.
Several groups have recently gone on strike in Bolivia, calling for pay increases higher than President Evo Morales proposes.
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