- About 1,000 opposition supporters rallied in Moscow on Sunday with the government’s approval. All previous attempts to gather in Triumfalnaya Square on the 31st of any given month to support Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right of free assembly, were banned this year.
- About 30 people gathered outside an Exxon station in Missoula on Saturday to protest the planned shipment of outsize oil field equipment through Montana.
- About 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon river of the Peruvian Amazon on Saturday after meeting with representatives of the regional government and the company responsible for an oil spill in June.
- More than 10,000 people marched in Navan, Ireland over the weekend to protest the government’s removal of emergency and acute surgery services from a local hospital.
- Protests against Vodafone took place across Britain on Saturday amid claims the firm had been let off an unpaid tax bill of £6bn. Eight people were arrested and bailed after a sit-down protest outside a Vodafone shop in Brighton.
- The first multinational protest by clerical sex abuse victims in the Vatican ended with a symbolic candlelit march on Sunday night.
- A group of Brazilian reporters wore red clown noses to greet World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari in a protest against the coach’s recent rant against the media.
