Some 23 activists were arrested at a protest at Citibank on Saturday afternoon. I was reporting on the demonstrations and was held with them.
Well over a million people took to the streets in more than 950 cities across 80 countries last Saturday, as the Occupy movement exploded internationally.
On Saturday more than a million people joined jubilant protests across Spain in another show of strength by the indignados movement.
Despite a thunderstorm and a total government ban, more than 1,000 people joined various demonstrations across South Korea’s capital, Seoul.
Tens of thousands marched in Rome—and police responded with tear gas and water cannon.
Thousands joined actions across Canada in the biggest coordinated action since the anti‑war protests in 2003.
A strike wave is shaking the regime in the oil-rich Gulf State of Kuwait.
Workers’ organisations in Egypt have joined calls for unity after security forces and state backed thugs attacked Christian Copts.
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is hijacking ambulances and kidnapping injured protesters from hospital beds in a desperate attempt to stem opposition.
A long day of protest Seattle culminated in several thousand people marching to sit down outside the street in front of a local Chase Bank.
Public transport authority workers in Cairo have returned to work following 12 days strike.
The Bahraini government announced last week that medical staff threatened with 15 years in prison will now be tried by a civilian court.
