- More than a thousand people affiliated with labor groups marched in Washington, DC on Monday to protest Wall Street lobbyists.
- Coal miners and other union workers protested in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday against the Massey Energy company’s environmental record and treatment of workers.
- 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.
