- Environmental campaigners planted trees, collected rubbish and rallied against pollution on Sunday for what is being billed as the world’s biggest day of climate-change activism. Some 7,000 community events in 188 countries were logged for the Global Work Party.
- Hundreds of scientists rallied outside Britain’s finance ministry on Saturday to protest planned government cuts they say will harm the country’s international reputation as a research hub.
- Tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets of Munich on Saturday, forming a human chain about 10 kilometers long through the center of the city to protest the German government’s plans for nuclear power.
- About 300 LGBT activists staged a flash mob die-in at New York City’s Grand Central Station on Saturday to call attention to LGBT victims of murder and suicide driven by bullying, violence and homophobia.
- UC Berkeley students and employees gathered for a rally in front of UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall to protest rising student fees, cuts in the number of classes offered, and the state’s plan to cut $3 billion from education funding.
- Thousands of people ringed Salt Lake City’s Temple Square on Thursday night to stage a silent protest against recent remarks by LDS apostle Boyd K. Packer that same-sex attraction is “impure and “unnatural.”
- More than a thousand people rallied in Iraqi cities on Friday to demand that officials accelerate the process of forming a new government.
- Two weeks after Newark schools received a $100 million donation from the founder of Facebook, students in one high school there used the social networking site to stage a walk-out protest against unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
- Two activists in Missoula, Montana were charged with “criminal mischief” after recently painting bike-lane symbols on the pavement of a particularly treacherous spot for bikers.
