The campaigning group Interfaith Worker Justice has announced its support of the Occupy America movement, which started on Wall Street.

Five hundred Israeli academics and intellectuals recently signed a petition supporting the Palestinian statehood bid: so will the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly decide whether ‘Palestine’ becomes fact or stays fiction - and what kind of fact or fiction? Dr Harry Hagopian explores the background to the much-written-about upcoming UN vote.

The Jubilee Debt Campaign has called for all of Egypt and Tunisia’s ‘unjust debts’ to be cancelled unconditionally, ahead of a G8 discussion on north Africa.

The US embassy in London will face protests on Sunday 20 March over the fate of a soldier accused of passing confidential information to Wikileaks.