- Hundreds of people convened in downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday to protest the development of “fracking,” a new and untested method of natural gas extraction that is threatening to take over Pennsylvania and neighboring states.
- More then 4,000 BBC employees started a 48-hour strike over pensions today, forcing the state-funded broadcaster to curtail programs and run pre-recorded shows.
- Concerned residents of the Navajo Nation, along with activists, constructed symbolic black crosses in front of Kayenta Mine in Arizona, which was named last spring as one of the most dangerous mines in the nation.
- About 40 North Carolina State University students painted the school’s “Free Expression Tunnel” black overnight to protest racist and homophobic graffiti.
- 11,000 London Underground staff began a 24-hour walkout on Tuesday night to protest job cuts.
- Hundreds of people in India’s Amritsar City gathered for a sit-in early Wednesday morning to protest the federal government’s delaying of justice to the victims of the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots.
- An extremely frail 38-year-old woman dubbed “The Iron Lady” marked 10 years without voluntarily taking food or water Thursday — a hunger strike launched to protest an anti-terror law that grants Indian soldiers sweeping powers to crack down on rebels.
