Tibetans protest Chinese rule, Chilean students demand education reform, and union workers oppose Illinois budget cuts

Tibetans protest Chinese rule, Chilean students demand education reform, and union workers oppose Illinois budget cuts

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Tibetans protest Chinese rule, Chilean students demand education reform, and union workers oppose Illinois budget cuts</h1> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gCj9Ppl0AB4" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p> <ul> <li>Several hundred Tibetans have <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17374855">protested against Chinese rule</a> in the western province of Qinghai since a monk there set himself on fire earlier this week. The advocacy group <a href="http://www.freetibet.org/newsmedia/unprecedented-footage-and-photographs-tibet-0">Free Tibet</a> has posted what it calls &#8220;unprecedented footage&#8221; of this highly restricted and restive part of western China.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Between 5,000 and 7,000 Chilean high school students marched down Santiago&#8217;s main avenue on Thursday to <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/15/2111831/police-in-chiles-capital-break.html#storylink=cpy">demand free quality education</a> and protest the expulsion of about 100 students who joined last year&#8217;s protests. Police broke up the march with water canons after a few hundred students crossed a police barrier and tried to march to the education ministry.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of union workers gathered across Illinois on Thursday to <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-union-workers-protest-quinn-budget-cuts-20120315,0,3824940.story">protest Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposed budget cuts </a>that include mass layoffs and the closure and consolidation of several state facilities, including prisons.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hundreds of people gathered in the Rotunda of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday to <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/15/Hundreds-protest-Utah-sex-ed-measure/UPI-66811331848287/#ixzz1pEW7RFTL">urge Gov. Gary Herbert to veto a bill</a> that would forbid school districts to teach use of contraceptives.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/13180687/russia-protest-leader-jailed-starts-hunger-strike/">started a hunger strike</a> on Thursday after being sentenced to 10 days in jail for disobeying the police following a rally against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/15/afghan-protesters-demand-u-s-soldier-be-tried-in-afghanistan/?iref=allsearch">Afghans took to the streets</a> on Thursday to demand a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians be prosecuted in Afghanistan as word spread that the American military moved him out of the country.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A group of about 75 demonstrators assembled at LOVE Park on Wednesday to <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/15/Two-arrested-at-immigrant-rights-rally/UPI-87401331839067/#ixzz1pEYHV8cl">support immigrant rights</a>. Two college students were arrested after blocking traffic with banners and refusing to move</li> </ul> <div> <ul> <li>Transit workers in Italy went on strike Wednesday, stopping train, bus and subway service for four hours to <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2012/03/14/Transit-strike-hobbles-Italy/UPI-14881331751993/#ixzz1pEYufwyI">protest the government&#8217;s economic reforms</a>.</li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li>Hundreds of anti-smoking advocates on Thursday <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PHILIPPINES_TOBACCO?SITE=FLROC&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">picketed a large international tobacco fair</a> in the Philippines, a country that has drawn more attention from the industry as Western nations pile on restrictions and taxes.</li> </ul> </div> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Tibetans+protest+Chinese+rule%2C+Chilean+students+demand+education+reform%2C+and+union+workers+oppose+Illinois+budget+cuts&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Tibetans+protest+Chinese+rule%2C+Chilean+students+demand+education+reform%2C+and+union+workers+oppose+Illinois+budget+cuts" style="border:0" alt="" />