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.
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.
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.
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