Eight people were arrested in San Francisco yesterday for occupying the city’s Human Services Agency in protest of the closing of a homeless shelter and the mistreatment of the people who had used its services.
More than 1,000 people rallied outside police headquarters in Toronto on Monday to protest the police department’s brutal crackdown and arrest of 900 people, including many journalists, during the G20 summit.
Some 200 people were arrested in Bangladesh on Monday for violating a ban on processions in thoroughfares during a march that was part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the “failures and excesses” of the government.
India’s opposition parties have called a nationwide strike on July 5 to protest a rise in fuel prices they say will stoke inflation and hurt poor people.
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