- More than 1,000 Jordanians demonstrated in central Amman on Friday to demand “satisfactory” constitutional reforms as parliament debates amendments proposed last month.
- Several hundred environmental activists and homeowners packed the sidewalks outside a natural gas industry conference in Philadelphia last Wednesday and called for a moratorium on drilling, which they said was contaminating water, harming animals and creating a public health hazard.
- Thousands of Greek tax collectors and customs officials walked off the job Monday in the first day of a two-day strike over plans to cut civil service salaries, the latest in a string of protests over Greek government reforms.
- Demonstrators dumped mussel shells in front of Italy’s parliament on Saturday, accusing politicians of squeezing workers with an austerity package while clinging to their privileges like mussels cling to rocks.
- Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters took to the streets of Tokyo and other cities on Sunday to mark six months since the March earthquake and tsunami and vent their anger at the government’s handling of the nuclear crisis set off by meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant.
- Anti-mining protesters chained themselves together in the Melbourne, Australia office of a mining company’s financial underwriter over the weekend as they stepped up their campaign against exploration of brown coal in Bacchus Marsh.
- About two thousand students and workers at the American University in Cairo began an open-ended strike on Sunday to protest the recent hike in tuition fees and continuing low salaries, amid silence from the university’s administration.
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