- Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the day.
- Some 5,000 people protested in the capital of Kosovo on Friday against a government decision last month to ban Muslim head scarves in public schools.
- More than 80 activists of the opposition Popular Front Party in Baku, Azerbaikan were detained in a rally on Saturday for protesting government restrictions on freedom of assembly in preparation for upcoming elections.
- About 100 rallied in Media, Pennsylvania on Thursday to demand that policy makers increase business taxes to help close the state budget gap, rather than cutting education and social services.
- Dozens of Palestinian residents from the village of Al-Ma’asara protested the confiscation of their land caused by the construction of the Israeli separation wall on Friday.
- Dozens protested outside City Hall in New York City Thursday in a rally to save New York’s public libraries from budget cuts. The mayor’s proposed budget calls for almost $75 million in cuts to city libraries.
- More than 75 bicyclists paraded through Madison, WI on Saturday, most starting out naked but ending up clothed, in order to bring attention to the causes of energy independence and body acceptance.
- Egyptian security forces beat and arrested dozens of protesters on Sunday when they attempted to march through downtown Cairo in the latest demonstration against police brutality following the death of a young man earlier this month.
