1. Across Europe, similar blockades and protests were staged by truckers, taxi drivers, farmers and others pinched by rising oil prices and high national fuel taxes. 2. Similar blockades shut down other campuses and preparatorias -- schools equivalent to the last two years of high school in the United States -- affiliated with UNAM. 3. Soon after that election, Lopez Obrador headed similar blockades and protests in Tabasco. 4. But, as with similar blockades, other band grievances are surfacing about logging and the Adams River fishery. 5. European Union transport ministers criticized France on Wednesday for giving a tax break to truckers protesting high fuel prices, a move that inspired similar anti-tax blockades across Europe. 6. Protesters have been demanding that Vice Premier Oleg Sysuyev come to the Kemerevo region to review a settlement that ended a similar blockade in May. 7. Protesters have been demanding that Vice Premier Oleg Sysuyev come to the region to review a settlement that ended a similar blockade in May. 8. They claim the government broke its promise to pay back wages that were part of a settlement that ended a similar blockade in May. 9. Vidaneev warned, however, that the decision might be different if there are similar blockades in the future. 10. In March the Israeli army imposed a similar blockade on the village following an anti-Israeli attack. |