- In Yemen, tens of thousands of protesters rallied nationwide on Thursday to denounce a deadly government crackdown that left 12 people dead and nearly 200 wounded on Wednesday when Yemeni forces opened fire on a crowd of roughly 100,000 protesters in Sana’a.
- Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in urban centers today in solidarity with the besieged city of Deraa and demanding political freedoms, in defiance of heavy army and security forces deployment.
- In Uganda, police were deployed at Tembo Steels Uganda Limited following a sit down strike by workers protesting low pay and poor working conditions on Thursday.
- About 1,300 employees who were on strike at a Taiwan-owned footwear factory in northern Vietnam returned to work Wednesday after the company agreed to increase their monthly salary.
- On Monday, Greenpeace activists wearing yellow hazmat suits and gas masks released orange smoke outside Brazil’s state-run development bank to protest against nuclear energy on Monday, days after it announced it would finance the construction of a third nuclear plant in the country.
- On Wednesday, undocumented college students in Florida held a sit-in in Senate President Mike Haridopolos’s office.
- At a Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission meeting in Pennsylvania on Wednesday protesters rallied outside and repeatedly interrupted presentations to voice their concerns.
