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According to the Guardian, US guards at Guantánamo Bay are insisting on a body cavity search before any hunger striker can contact their lawyer, either via an in-person interview at the base or with a phone call.

Clive Stafford Smith, the founder of legal group Reprieve, which represents various detainees in Guantánamo Bay, said strikers do not need to be sexually assaulted in order to access a telephone to talk to their lawyer.

Smith stated that two of his clients and at least one other detainee 

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Fishermen in P.E.I. blocked a $200,000 lobster shipment destined for the US from leaving the island, in a protest against unfairly low lobster prices, this past Saturday.

According to CBCNews, lobster fishermen across the Maritime have been protesting low lobster prices, which vary across the three provinces and range from between $2.75 and $3.75 per pound for canner lobster, and between $3.25 and $4 per pound for market-sized.

The Parti Quebecois’s plan to cede land to the Kanawake Mohawks has sparked a bit of controversy.  

The Gazette is reporting that South Shore mayors were left stunned by Friday’s announcement because they weren’t included in the decision.

The 300 hectares of land in question were taken in 2006 during construction for highway 30.

A Mohawk band council spokesperson says he doesn’t understand the controversy, as the land has been the topic of an on-going discussion for years.

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In Spain, students and teachers marched to the streets to protest against budget cuts and reforms that are hurting the country's Education sector. 

According to Al Jazeera, demonstrators in Madrid marched to the éducation ministry building in green t-shirts.

They're calling on its ministèr,  Jose Ignacio Wart to résign. 

The Spanish Government has reduced education spending by about 14 percent between 2012 and 2013