anna galkina is with the group platform london.e will be right back. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. it is the 12th anniversary of the occupation of afghanistan. there are major protests and killings going on in egypt are now. the election taking place in azerbaijan. we are talking about oil, gas pipeline politics. what links all of this? not to mention tar sands protests from canada and the u.s., the linkages. over the weekend, there were vigils held around the world to release 28 environmentalists and two journalists racing piracy charges in russia. they are now known as the arctic 30, a change in a greece being action, directed at russia's first offshore oil rig last month. the netherlands has filed legal action against russia in a bid to win their release. timothy mitchell of columbia university is here, james marriott, and anna galkina from platform london. you are originally from moscow. what is happening with this oil protest? >> the activists were detai