- Organizers with Environmental Justice Toronto unfurled a banner yesterday at Enbridge Day – a forum for investors – stating “Enbridge Invests in Oil Addiction: Community Resistance is the Cure.” Enbridge is asking investors to support the expansion of tar sands oil pipelines across North America despite a record of spills, accidents and breaks, including one of the largest spills in US history earlier this summer in Michigan.
- Greenpeace activists in France put on bathing suits and doused themselves with mock petroleum on Saturday to protest deep-water drilling and a controversial plan to extract oil from oil-bearing sands.
- Approximately 8,000 people gathered outside the Icelandic parliament Monday night to disrupt a keynote speech from Icelandic PM Johanna Sigurdardottir marking the start of parliament. Political tension has risen since people affected by the country’s 2008 financial crisis have been forced to sell their homes.
- About 5,000 Romanian teachers and education employees protested in the capital on Tuesday over austerity measures implemented by the government to trim the budget deficit amid a deep recession.
- About 100 people gathered in front of the FBI office in Minneapolis on Tuesday to protest the recent raiding of homes belonging to anti-war activists.
- The Union of Local Authorities in Israel organized demonstrations in intersections throughout the country on Tuesday, in conjunction with strikes to protest government budget cuts.
