Council staff in north London have gone on strike for the fourth time in protest at outsourcing plans.

BBC: Barnet Town Hall

Last week, demonstrators returned to protest against the agency, this time for its cutbacks in benefits.

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The street performer, protest artist and one-time candidate for New York City mayor.

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More than 1m Austrians went on strike, for the second time since the start of May, to protest against planned public-pensions reforms.

ECONOMIST: Following the map

In Belfast, a protest closed the bottom of the Shankill Road for a time.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Still, Younes said, the technology made it a lot easier for protest leaders to mobilize people and get them to the right place at the right time.

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For in the walking I discover a thread that runs through time, beyond the need of personal protest, connecting me to that life with Aunt Sadie and Uncle Luke on Chesapeake Bay.

NPR: Environmentalist John Francis, Walking the Walk

They are torn by leadership disputes and, since entering the federal government for the first time in 1998, have lost much of their appeal as a somewhat wacky, pacifist protest party of the left.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Now seems like a good time to agitate for a change: the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has pledged to enhance the rights to peaceful protest that it claims Labour eroded.

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