- One of the largest demonstrations in the Irish Republic’s history brought more than 100,000 people on to Dublin’s streets in protest over the international bailout and four years of austerity ahead.
- Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Austria’s capital Saturday to protest government cuts in education, heath care and family allowances.
- Tens of thousands Italians marched in Rome on Saturday in a rally organised by Italy’s largest union to protest bleak job prospects and demand more rights for workers.
- Almost 100 people from Idaho, Montana, Washington, Utah, Oregon, California, Oklahoma and different parts of Canada converged outside of Missoula last week for the anti-tar sands resistance summit, which non-violent direct action trainings and network strategy development.
- More than 30 people took part in a march and rally in Thornbury, England on Saturday to protest plans for a new nuclear power plant in South Gloucestershire.
- Reverend Billy Talen of The Church of Life After Shopping was arrested after protesting (and singing) in the lobby of UBS during Black Friday. He and his church members were dressed in white robes to protest the bank’s funding of mountaintop removal.
- Hundreds of truckers staged a slow-moving convoy in British Columbia on Saturday to push for enforcement of minimum pay rates.
- Over a hundred people joined a community sit-in at Melbourne, Australia’s only aboriginal school last week to protest plans for its partial demolition.
