Huge Public-Sector Strike Hits the UK
Many schools and hospitals closed as workers take to the streets in protest against changes to their pensions. Al Jazeera, 11-30-11 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2011/11/2011113015916961952.html British public-sector workers opposed to government pension cuts are on a 24-hour…
Occupy Oakland Protesters Force Halt to Operations at Busy Port
By TERENCE CHEA, LISA LEFF and TERRY COLLINS, Huffington Post, 11/2/11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/occupy-oakland-port_n_1072955.html OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Several thousand Occupy Wall Street demonstrators gathering in Oakland forced a halt to operations at the nation’s…