Experiments with truth: 5/29/09
- Rallies are being held in more than 50 US cities on or around May 30 to support a single-payer, national health care plan
- Hundreds of warehouse workers, clergy, students and supporters blocked the most important intersection in the Inland Empire’s warehouse district, effectively shutting it down
- Relatives of people who have been disappeared by police or troops in Kashmir hold a sit-in on the 28th of every month to demand their whereabouts be released
- Victims of the atomic bomb and supporters staged a sit-in against North Korea’s nuclear test in Nagasaki, Japan
- Hundreds of community members from San Miguel Ixtahuacan marched through the streets of Guatemala City to protest Canadian mining giant Goldcorp
- Professors at the University and College Union (UCU) in the UK voted for a boycott of Israeli academics but their leadership voided the decision
- A 24-hour vigil is being held outside of Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s office as part of a nationwide week of action to support the Employee Free Choice Act
- Deaf students demonstrated against inaccessibility and inequity at Ontario universities
- Hundreds of Tibetan protesters face off against armed security at site of proposed gold mine
