Demonstrators gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday night to condemn the Oct. 26 police killing of Walter Wallace, a Black resident of West Philadelphia. They also showed support for the vote counting still underway in Pennsylvania

French small business owners have marched in Paris and Toulouse in a protest against red tape.

From tobacconists to construction industry bosses, they complained of being restricted by high taxes and social charges, health and safety rules and other bureaucracy.

“Even our padlocks are Chinese”, read one banner.

Critics say President Hollande’s labour reforms don’t go far enough.

Gay bars in London and across the UK have called for a show of solidarity against Russia’s anti-gay laws on the eve of the the World Athletics Championships in Moscow by boycotting Russian vodka.

They’re also boycotting all Russian vodka in solidarity with Russia’s gay community. Other cities like New York and San Francisco have followed suit.

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Major controversy has erupted over Mamata Banerjee’s decision to gift Rs 28 Crore to Durga Puja Organisers and on the other hand not increase the renumeration to Imams. Influential clerics and scholars across the state are taking out a rally demanding hike in stipend to Imams and state funds for least 10,000 Madrasas across the state. A section of Muslim clerics have claimed that for the last 6 years, Imams are getting a stipend of only Rs 2, 500 per month.

Police have broken up an encampment outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia, where dozens of protesters have taken over sidewalks to decry the separation of immigrant children from parents. (July 5)

An 84-year-old rabbi was among six people reportedl arrested during a protest against Immigration and Custom Enforcement in Philadelphia on Friday, June 29.

Video from Councilwoman Helen Gym shows the moment Rabbi Arthur Waskow was gently placed in handcuffs, helped from a seat and then lead to a police van. He and five others were issued citations for failure to disperse and were later released, Philly.com reported. They were accused of blocking the door to an ICE facility.

This wasn’t the first arrest for Waskow, who founded the Jewish Renewal movement and has been a political activist since the 1960s. A report from Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that this latest incident was the 25th time he was arrested at a demonstration. Credit: Helen Gym via Storyful

Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Wednesday in support of Alton Sterling, the African-American man who was shot dead the day before by two Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers. Several protesters were also seen being taken away by police at a highway intersection. James Valles reporting (BNO News)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The heart of Philadelphia’s Italian Market was uncommonly quiet. Fine restaurants in the nation’s capital closed for the day. A string of grocery stores in Chicago shut their doors. Immigrants around the U.S. stayed home from work and school Thursday to demonstrate how important they are to America’s economy and its way of life, and many businesses closed in solidarity.