Women and children during a peaceful sit in.

The situation escalated rapidly when the administration threatened to call state security to break the sit in, but employees confirmed they will continue their open strike till their demands are fulfilled.

It was the latest of a series of protests that have taken place in Mauritania.

In Ceará, in the northeast, 56 schools have been occupied.

The police confiscated bedding, electronics, and provisions from the camp site, and were later seen dividing up the food and drink between themselves.

Mauritanian blogger Ahmed Jedou wrote من أحزاب وقوى سياسية وحركات شبابية مثل حركة 25 فبراير التي دخلت في سمر ليلي صاخب .

Among those who were arrested were two of Mrs. al Duhayan's sons, Yasser and Rayan.

Families brought children to protect them from the police forcibly dismantling the sit in.

In another post, Saudi Jeans writes about the reactions he received when he announced the strike

The following is an eye witness account by blogger Bassem Zakaria El Samragy, who was at the sit in.

Following the attacks, members of Quetta's Hazara community gathered on Alamdar Road and started their peaceful sit in.

Supporters of the occupation, who witnessed Uruatu's resistance, tried to circumvent the blockade by throwing food to him.

The final eviction took place peacefully after police received a court order to vacate the building.

Anyway, I passed through the sit in, and I found people from our side occupying and guarding the bridge (I won't say revolutionaries and thugs , I will say from our side and from their side ).

Urutau resisted for 26 hours at the top of a tree in protest against the removal of the occupation of Aldeia Maracanã.

In a reply to the sit in call, Ahmed el Gizawy who like Dalia, also believes Obama is coming to Egypt with good intentions towards the Islamic and Arab world, asked the people to listen first to the speech then decide whether they want to proceed with a sit in or not.

Finally, there sure will be debates all over the Egyptian media about the legality and the reasons for the sit in, but Sarah tweeted that at the end of the day, there are no excuses for attacking the protesters.

To conceal the alcohol, Bin Kerishan orders a Buck's Fizz (a champagne orange juice mixture).

Nadia El Awady, an ex journalist for IOL, was closely following the situation and posted a statement issued by IslamOnline striking employees on her blog

In their eight months of peaceful revolution, Yemenis have been an inspiration to many, not only to Arabs but to the world at large.

The protesters action last night was a reaction to the police clearance of the barricades in major sit in sites in the past few days.

Pro Beijing law makers passed a motion on October 10 demanding an investigation of the mobilization of the massive sit in action under the Legislative Council Powers and Privileges) Ordinance.

In their 16 July statement announcing their decision to cancel the sit in, the Socialist Forum condemned the Beirut municipality for the leak. The group also clarified the purpose of the protest

Hossam Al Hamalawy from Egypt is writing about a workers strike. After the first day of the strike and sit in, the picture inside the factory is really amazing.

Bassem writes Last night, like most people, I wasn't able to sleep, and when I woke up I couldn't do anything apart from go to the sit in.

The sit in in front of the palace was attacked on December 5th, which resulted 6 deaths and much more left injured.

At least 14 schools have been occupied in São Paulo most of them were vacated a couple of weeks later, according to newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

According to a twitter message left on the blog, it seems that his equipment was returned to him without the memory camera's card that had the pix of the strike.

Thirty schools were occupied in Goiás at different moments starting in January the last occupation was vacated in March.

Member of Icelandic Parliament and NATO Parliamentary Assembly Birgitta Jonsdottir contributed a video

Two other activists, Ali Dahna and Hussam Zein, were arrested today for holding the same banner during a sit in near Qasr el Adli, in Damascus.

The first initiative that made this group of women stand out within the civil movement was a sit in to demand the release of prisoners of conscience, in April 2011.

The birthday song, which was sang by the sit in protesters, when they were surrounded and bombarded by the anti occupation groups, was depicted as the most evil weapon.

After cutting off electricity and barricading the area around the sit in with road blocks and a convoy of about 30 vehicles, a barrage of tear gas, sound grenades and water cannon rained down on the camp.

On 3 May, in Chicago, a fight broke out when strikebreakers attempted to cross the picket line, and two workers died when police opened fire upon the crowd.

The massive sit in action, dubbed Occupy Central protests, is to impose pressure on the Hong Kong government demanding a revision of the political reform package by incorporating the idea of citizen nomination in the election of the city's top leader.

It is worth mentioning that this strike may be the first instance in which strikers use new media efficiently and effectively to draw all the attention needed to support their cause, from continuous Twitter updates to Live streaming.

The world woke up today to see that Egypt had made the headlines again with a photograph of military officers ferociously beating a veiled girl and stripping her off her clothes during the OccupyCabinet sit in dispersal attempt.

Most activists are not focusing on the camps any more. Campers have decided to leave the Madrid square Puerta del Sol on June 12, 2011. It became the physical symbol of the people's unease with their political representatives.

One of Riyadh's main roads, King Fahad Road, was closed by police during rush hour to crackdown on the sit in. At 6.20pm, one of the protesters, al Roushodi's wife, tweeted

Students of Mendes de Moraes convinced the State Department of Education to establish a commission to visit each school that was occupied to analyze what each unit needs and issue a document promising emergency reforms in the amount of 15,000 reais (about 4,400 US dollars).

The protestors had been conducting a sit in over a period of days outside the MOD in the Abbassiya area of Cairo, and included many supporters of Salafi politician Hazem Salah Abu Ismail who were protesting his exclusion from the forthcoming presidential elections.

Back in February, al Jourish was one of the women who participated in a very publicized sit in, before they were arrested and imprisoned for weeks. Her family's house was under siege, and her children were prohibited from contacting anyone.

I am in solidarity with the Syrian people. I reject the brutality and killing that the Syrian authorities are committing against the unarmed Syrian people.

According to information shared on the occupations' social media pages, a collaborative map and multiple news sources, more than 300 schools have been occupied at some point between late April and June in seven Brazilian states.