- On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls rappelled down the side of Mattel headquarters near Los Angeles to unfurl a banner saying Barbie packaging contributes to rainforest destruction.
- About 80 tents have sprung up in and around State Street in Madison, Wisconsin since Saturday in an effort to revive the protests against Governor Walker and his budget cuts that began four months ago.
- A group of hackers known as Anonymous has taken down a Turkish government website to protest recently introduced Internet filters that many consider to be censorship.
- Hundreds of Mexicans began a weeklong caravan on Saturday to protest the country’s bloody drug war, led by a crusading poet whose son was murdered by suspected cartel hitmen.
- The daughter of a North Carolina lawmaker and her third-grade class wrote to him and other elected officials protesting possible cuts in state education spending.
- More than 100 cars blocked a 2-kilometer stretch of Independence Avenue in Minsk on Wednesday to protest rising gasoline prices. It was the first show of public dissent in the Belarus since demonstrators were jailed for protesting the results of last year’s elections.
- A train carrying waste from a Dutch nuclear plant was delayed three hours on Tuesday by 10 Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the rails. Police made 33 arrests during the protest.
- 200 teachers gathered outside the capitol in Austin, Texas on Monday to protest the state Senate’s passing of a bill that empowers districts to cut teacher salaries and institute more furlough days.
- Iraqi and Kurdish refugees held in a British detention center in Oxford have started a hunger strike to protest plans to deport them to Baghdad.
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