Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Activists stage colorful anti-Rio+20 demo in central Rio

Agence France-Presse: With placards, balloons and chain saws, thousands of militants staged a good-natured and colorful protest in central Rio Wednesday against the UN Rio+20 summit on a 'green' economy. The march drew environmentalists, workers, civil servants, black militants, homosexuals, indigenous peoples and feminists on the day world leaders kicked off the UN summit on sustainable development. Organizers said 50,000 people turned up but police estimate the crowd at no more than 20,000. The protesters came...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/activists-stage-colorful-anti-rio-20-demo-central-235054253.html

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