- In Chile, dozens of students and other protesters interrupted a Senate committee meeting Thursday to demand a popular referendum on how to resolve the country’s social problems, especially education.
- Portuguese trade unions on Thursday began a week of protests against the government’s austerity policies, in a prelude to a general strike scheduled for November 24.
- Wearing Greenpeace Quit Coal t-shirts and surgical masks to display the health risks of burning coal, seven student activists marched into the office of the president of Michigan State University on Thursday to ask MSU to transition to 100% clean energy.
- At least seven protesters were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday as gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in the Yemeni capital.
- On Wednesday, Petroleo Brasileiro SA employees and other oil workers in Brazil implemented a slowdown at refineries, platforms and plants to push for salary increases
- Palestinians prisoners suspended their three-week hunger strike on Monday, as Israeli Prison Authorities agreed to end the use of solitary confinement for prisoners.
- Freeport-McMoRan’s miners in Peru launched a hunger strike on Monday, hoping to pressure the government to resolve a labor dispute 19 days into a walkout at the Cerro Verde copper mine.
