Protests And Demonstrations
WASHINGTON - Environmentalists and other protesters rallied Monday in the nation's capital to urge the Obama administration to end mountaintop removal mining, saying the coal removal process pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.
TOKYO - The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Saturday to protest rampant violence that claims thousands of lives each year in Venezuela and has been worsening in the past decade.
WARSAW, Poland - Greenpeace activists have hung a huge banner from the roof of Poland's Environment Ministry demanding the preservation of a primeval forest they say is under threat.
STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court has ordered 29 Greenpeace activists to pay fines of up to 17,000 kronor ($2,200) each for breaking into the grounds of a nuclear energy plant.
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- Isolated and battered, Israeli doves hold protest
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- Japan says 3 whalers injured by activists
- Israel rerouting barrier near West Bank village
- Anti-whaling boat damaged during protest at sea
- Angry farmers rally outside Australian parliament
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- Fear of violence grows in mountaintop mining fight
