- More than 30 janitors and cleaning ladies in their 50s and 60s have been holding a sit-in protest in the main building of Hongik University in Seoul for four days since Monday morning, demanding the school withdraw the collective termination of their employment contracts.
- Thousands of lawyers went on strike in Tunisia yesterday to protest the police repression of a march in the town of Sidi Bouzid, where a rare wave of anti-government demonstrations recently began.
- In advance of a historic referendum that could split Sudan in two, about 80 students, activists and refugees marched in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday to call for peace in the war-wracked country.
- Dozens of people gathered on the steps of the Nebraska state Capitol in Lincoln on Wednesday to protest a proposed oil pipeline. They delivered stuffed toy meadowlarks — the state bird — to each of Nebraska’s 49 lawmakers. The toys held USB drives with information and reports intended to show the dangers of leaking oil pipelines.
- About fifty poets from across Maine’s arts community descended upon Longfellow Square in Portland on Wednesday at the same time as Governor Paul LePage’s inauguration to protest the first time Maine’s Poet Laureaute was not invited to deliver a message at the ceremony. They read and recited poems as a way to send a message that the arts are an important part of the state.
