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French high school and university students continued their walkout from classes again today after an impasse to their grievances was left unresolved on Friday prompting a national day of solidarity strike to take place Tuesday October 6...

Chanting “You can’t atone for genocide” and “There is no forgiveness for genocide,” pro-Palestinian peace activists demonstrated outside the Israeli Consulate two days before Yom Kippur, the sacred Jewish religious holiday of atonement when a person asks God for ethical and spiritual change. The reconciliation includes “regret for wrongdoing, deciding to change, and verbal confession of the sins.”...

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), California’s largest investor-owned utility, is at it again by requesting the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to grant a rate increase for its electrical and natural gas services. The Oil and Gas Network and the Affordable Energy Campaign, among other consumer groups and seniors, are pushing back against any new rate increases requested by the utility saying in part that...

Ahead of Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marco Jr’s State of the National Address slated for July 27, over 80 members from the BANYA—DMV regional council began a two-day speakout protest. Calling their action, “The People’s State of the Nation Address” they rejected President Marco’s fifth State of the Nation address which they charged was “built on repression, exploitation, and subservience to US imperialism…” characterized by “worsening attacks on workers, peasants, migrants and o...

As they have for the past decade, the environmental activist group Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), along with other frontline groups, has protested, demonstrated, and attended the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) monthly public meetings to bring before the commission their concerns regarding an end to fossil fuel expansion....

“Free Davey” supporters chanted and picketed outside the Superior Court of the District of Columbia this morning, where indicted former Olympian slalom canoeist, Davey Hearn, 67 was being arraigned on what supporters describe as false charges of “vandalizing” the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on June 19. During the hearing, Hearn denied any wrongdoing, and his attorney, Mary Dohrmann, entered a plea of not guilty during the brief court session....

Trump has once again outdone himself with his latest Great American State Fair, great un-extravaganza on the National Mall, billed as a celebration of the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence. The unpopular president’s thinly veiled “vanity fair” has been met by a disinterested and bored public that has become increasingly fatigued and leery of participating in anything Trump. This, combined with intermittent power outages and a collapsing stage along with Trump’s highly partisan op...

Human rights and immigration reform activists in Marin County protested at the Citizens Private Bank office calling for the bank to sever its continued financial support of private for-profit prison companies that run ICE facilities nationwide....

The annual royalist tribute organized by the far-right nationalist promonarchist French political movement L’Action Française during the national holiday, Fête nationale de Jeanne d’Arc et du patriotisme, took place on May 10, featuring a parade, brief speeches, and flower-laying at the golden statue of France’s patron saint in the Place des Pyramides....

La Festa dei Lavoratori, (International Worker’s Day, May Day) is an important Italian national holiday that celebrates workers of the world by calling for better working conditions, wages and safety on the job in a display of solidarity for workers and women’s rights among numerous other labor, social and political issues. Many businesses and schools are closed today, and people are encouraged to not work or shop in solidarity....