- Around 50 opposition activists gathered outside Moscow’s City Hall to protest the government and embattled Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, but were quickly surrounded by several hundred riot police. Thirty were arrested.
- A small group of Moscow-area environmentalists fighting to prevent the destruction of Khimki Forest by road-builders rallied on the Kremlin’s doorstep Thursday to ask President Dmitry Medvedev to honor his pledge to take their concerns into account. Protest leader Yevgenia Chirikova was permitted to deliver a petition urging Medvedev to stop the arrest of activists and the seizure of their newsletter.
- An estimated 20,000 marched through the streets of Salonika as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou delivered his much-awaited state of the nation speech to protest the government’s unpopular economic austerity policies.
- Thousands of villagers chanting pro-independence slogans demonstrated in Kashmir yesterday after a protester was killed by a police bullet — the 71st death in three months of unrest.
- Despite the cancellation of the Qur’an burning, dozens of people made their voices heard outside Pastor Terry Jones’ Gainesville church Saturday evening, opposing his views toward Muslims and Islam.
- Fifty Spanish miners have been engaged in a sit-in 1650 feet underground for over a week to protest unpaid wages.
- Hundreds gathered at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA on Saturday to protest the airport’s switch to a non-union firm to operate its courtesy shuttles.
