- La Via Campesina—the world’s largest federation of peasant and smallholder farmers—held what they called the “1,000 Cancún Global Day of Action for Climate Justice” in which several thousand people took to the streets to march in protest of the UN climate summit.
- Indigenous and youth groups demonstrated both inside and outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun yesterday to call for their inclusion in the negotiations.
- In a country where walkouts are very rare, Czech public sector workers went on strike against the government’s austerity measures on Wednesday.
- Public transport in Athens and train services across Greece are shut down today as state workers protest cuts in wages and bonuses and the reorganization of state-controlled companies.
- Hair salons across France turned off their sound systems on Tuesday in a nationwide protest against a tax on background music.
- Iranian students have defied a security clampdown to stage anti-government protests throughout the country. Unconfirmed reports say about a dozen people have been arrested, including at Tehran University in the capital.
- More than 10,000 supporters of Macedonia’s leading opposition party protested in the country’s capital to call for early elections, accusing the conservative government of mismanaging the economy and criticizing its failure to bring the country closer to the EU and NATO.
