Americas
According to Mariela Castro, the famous outspoken gay rights activist and a sexologist, the current Cuban President Raul Castro, brother of Fidel Castro and her father, supports giving homosexuals greater rights and ending the discrimination against homosexuals. Mariela Castro who also leads the National Center for Sex Education, proclaimed Raul Castro’s support of LGBT activism [...]
Asia
Confirmed reports are coming in of continuing protests and clashes between protesters and police in Bangladesh. Violence apparently started in the city of Chittagong when protests organized by the Jamaat-e-Islami were blocked by police. Tear gas and force were used by the police in an attempt to disperse protesters who were throwing rocks back and [...]
Europe
Greetings, citizens of the world! We are Anonymous. We are tired of the tyranny of Russian government and of the lies of Russian national TV channels, so we declare war on them. Television will never show the Russian government’s true face. We are constantly being told of our flourishing economy, of the valor [...]
WORLD
As hundreds of thousands of people around the world prepare to take to the streets this weekend as part of a global call for change, the International ‘Global Spring’ Assembly – an international and inter-movement assembly formed [...]
WORLD
Amid the international coverage of ethnic Tibetans committing self-immolation, news of the 14th Dalai Lama quieted down after his condemnation of the self-immolations and after he formally resigned as a political leader for the Tibetan government-in-exile. But now the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and spiritual Tibetan Buddhist leader, known as Tenzin Gyatso, is making his latest move that may [...]
Europe
Starting next year in 2013, the Portuguese government will be removing four holidays from the calendar for roughly five years in order to add slightly more fuel to the economic fire that Portugal desperately needs. Two of the holidays are religious while the other two are public holidays. The religious holidays to be suspended as holidays will [...]
WORLD
For a summary of events, see below. For more information, see OccupyG8-2012.org, OccupyG8Thurmont.net, or Occupy G8 Peoples Summit. via Occupy G8 Thurmont: Why we are protesting the G8 Summit: According to Wikipedia, G8 consists of representatives of the governments of the 8 countries with the largest Gross Domestic Product (GPD), totaling the majority of the world’s GDP. [...]