Experiments with truth: 6/10/09
- About 30,000 left-wing activists, students, politicians and Catholic priests and nuns in the Philippines are expected to protest President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s attempt to extend term limits.
- Continental Airlines pilots are protesting the company’s annual shareholder meetings to remind executives that the sacrafices made by pilots in their last contract agreement were a loan.
- 150 protestors marched outside an East Texas courthouse on Monday to demand that the Department of Justice look at a case involving two white men accused of dragging a black man to death that was dropped by local authorities on lack of evidence.
- A rally for Iran’s leading presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi surrounded and overmatched a simultaneous rally for current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bringing Tehran to a standstill on Monday.
- Somali journalists went on strike today to protest the recent assassination of a colleague, while also demanding protection from the international community.
- Three members of the environmental activist group Rising Tide attempted to shut down Australia’s second-largest aluminum smelter on Tuesday because it derives its energy from coal.
- About 35 Ontario farmers have been protesting a landfill that messes with their water table by blockading the road that leads to it with their tractors.
- Weekly protests are being held in a small Irish village to oppose the construction of an oil pipeline by Shell.
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