- In Madison, Wisconsin, about a quarter of West High’s 2,086 students staged a silent 37-minute sit-in Friday morning outside their building to protest a district proposal to revamp curriculum at the city’s high schools, which students fear would widen the racial achievement gap and eliminate elective classes available to upperclassmen at West.
- Hundreds of Hilton Chicago Hotel workers began a three-day strike Saturday in protest of the hotel chain’s deal to buy back millions of dollars in debt from the Federal Reserve at a steep discount.
- Workers staged a demonstration on Friday outside Romania’s Finance Ministry – a continuation of a spontaneous sit-in the night before – over wage cuts and unpaid bonuses.
- Twelve female protesters handcuffed themselves to semis that had been parked to block the main road leading to the Coryton oil refinery in Essex on Saturday.
- On Friday, students of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education in Nigeria obstructed the Lagos-Badagry expressway while protesting the ongoing strike by their lecturers.
- About 100 General Motors Co workers and retirees picketed outside the United Auto Workers union’s headquarters on Saturday to protest plans to build a new small car with low-wage workers.
- Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome on Saturday at a trade union rally in defense of labor contracts and against the government.
- On Friday, about 100 local residents, Israeli activists and internationals participated in the weekly nonviolent action against the Israeli wall being built on farmers’ lands in the Palestinian village of Bil’in.
