The legal prosecution of political activists continued on Monday as approximately 300 people appeared in court on G20-related charges.

August 28 marks the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
“I Have a Dream” speech, and while crowds gather to celebrate the
anniversary in Washington, DC, they’ll be joined by an unlikely visitor:
Glenn Beck.

VANCOUVER -  Pacific Rim Mining held its annual general meeting in downtown Vancouver today - attended by a few directors and more than a dozen protesters.

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Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published a
CIA memo examining the implications of the US being perceived as an
"exporter of terrorism".

In December 2009 during the climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of
thousands of protesters gathered to call for climate justice and
challenge the ongoing UN negotiations.

A month into BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, the US press began to say that the crisis might be ‘Obama’s 9/11’. It was a comparison that Obama himself repeated a couple of weeks later. Hyperbole? Perhaps – but the disaster certainly opens up space for thinking about alternatives to the industry that created it.