Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng succeeded in escaping from house arrest in a rural area of China’s Shandong province. From an unknown location, he issued a YouTube appeal to Premier Wen Jiabao.
Thirty-three were arrested by Onondaga County sheriff’s deputies for protesting at upstate New York’s Hancock Field air base over the use of unmanned drones in Afghanistan.
Protesters in Benghazi have for days been blocking the entrance to the offices of Libya's biggest oil company, Agoco, to demand jobs for youth and greater transparency over public funds.
Thousands of Bolivian mine workers marched and blocked streets in the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba in a two-day strike, throwing dynamite at police who formed a cordon around the presidential palace.
Indigenous leaders gather in the jungle city of Trinidad for a new cross-country march to oppose the proposed highway through Bolivia’s Amazon region—while supporters of the project pledge to block their advance.
A special event in New York City on Thursday will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the arrest of the late Palestinian activist and Homeland Security detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti.
On the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a Friends of the Earth report reveals widespread rights violations and environmental destruction from a Bank-funded “land grab” in Uganda.
President Ollanta Humala boasted a new “expert review” of the controversial Conga gold mine project in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region, but regional president Gregorio Santos charged Humala is “on his knees” before corporate power.
Amid rival protests for and against re-opening the idled US-owned metal smelter at La Oroya in the Peruvian Andes—one of the 10 most polluted spots on Earth—the owners are suing Peru’s government for violating terms of the FTA.
Supposed ecological crusader and Avatar creator James Cameron, along with Google heavies Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, is among the “investor and advisor group” of Planetary Resources Inc—which aims to start mining the asteroids.
Weeks after Tuareg rebels seized the northern half of the country (with its precious uranium deposits) no move has been made by Mali’s government to try to take it back—a sign that the state has in fact collapsed.
UN aid agencies in the occupied West Bank protested that Israel destroyed 21 homes of Palestinian Bedouin refugees at Khalayleh north of East Jerusalem—leaving 54 people homeless, including 35 children.
