- Activists with Rising Tide Australia scaled a 15-metre-high coal conveyor belt this morning at Kooragang and suspended a banner that read: “We’re sorry Somalia. Coal = climate change and starvation.”
- Tens of thousands of Syrians poured out of mosques after prayers on Friday to join anti-government protests, defying the threat of a brutal crackdown to express their rage at the killings by security forces this week in the city of Hama.
- 51-year-old South Korean labor activist Kim Jin-sukis about to enter her eighth month atop a 15-story crane where she has been protesting layoffs at a major shipping company.
- A one-day general strike called in Indian Kashmir by separatists to protest the death of a shopkeeper in police custody Wednesday closed down shops, schools and offices.
- Protesters pitched tents and laid down in the middle of one of the busiest streets in the Haitian capital Monday to protest efforts to remove them from a private lot where they have been living since the January 2010 earthquake.
- More than a thousand workers at a Finnish steel making plant downed tools on Thursday morning for two days to protest low wages paid to Polish bricklayers working at the site.
- Thousands of Chinese taxi drivers in Hangzhou went on strike earlier this week to demand higher fares, pensions and the establishment of a labour union.
