Hundreds of people in Pittsburgh and Binghmaton protested plans of gas drilling in Pennsylvania and New York this week.
On Wednesday a group of Taiwanese writers, musicians and artists protested a controversial plan by Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co to build oil refineries on ecologically sensitive wetlands along the coast of Dacheng Township.
Activists from the Campaign Against Climate Change in England came to the Whitehall office of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on Wednesday to protest government subsidies for agrofuel production, which harms the environment, displaces indigenous peoples and leads to food shortages.
Several hundred people went to the Seattle Police West Precinct Thursday afternoon to protest the officer-involved shooting death of a Native American man who family said was deaf in one ear and had struggled with homelessness. The man was a carver and couldn’t hear the officer’s verbal commands to drop his knife.
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