- Two Greenpeace activists climbed up the giant anchor chain of a massive oil drilling ship yesterday, stopping it from leaving to drill a deep water well off the Shetland Islands. The action is part of an effort calling on North Sea governments to adopt a ban on all deepwater drilling.
- Trade unions, university students, peasants and other groups in Peru are holding a 48-hour strike in Cusco that has suspended train services to the Inca citadel Machu Picchu due to protests over an irrigation project that critics say could leave communities without water.
- Thousands of people staged a protest in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, on Monday against the election to parliament of 20 members of a far-right party.
- Six activists chained themselves to a crane in western Turkey on Monday to protest a hydroelectric dam that will mean the destruction of an ancient city of Allianoi.
- Around 10,000 people took to the streets of London over the weekend for a Protest the Pope rally and march against what the organizers called “papal intolerance” and to condemn the state funding of the visit.
- An estimated 1500 Scouts gathered in the little town of Vlaardingen near Rotterdam on Saturday to create an aerial image of 10:10, a global campaign to cut carbon emissions by 10 percent a year starting this year.
- A group of 12 Chilean activists began an open-ended “massive solidarity fast” on Sept. 14 to support indigenous Mapuche prisoners who have been carrying out a liquids-only hunger strike since July 12. They were arrested under a Pinochet-era law that criminalizes legitimate forms of protest against the seizure of their lands.
- Thousands of protesters led by high school students marched on Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo on Sept. 16 to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the “Night of the Pencils,” when student protesters demanding free public transportation and other benefits were kidnapped and killed by the military dictatorship.
