Experiments with truth: 6/11/09
- Thousands of Guatemalan campesinos blocked roads at seven or more sites on June 4 in a nationwide protest organized by the Committee for Campesino Development (Codeca) to demand that the government carry out agrarian reform
- Unionised workers at Ssangyong Motor Corp. in South Korea have vowed to continue their sit-in strike, rejecting a proposal from the management that it could reconsider layoffs if they disperse.
- Around 150 Polish parents and students occupy a Polish high school in Athens that Poland’s Education Ministry has decided to close
- Thousands of subway workers in London continue 48-hour strike over pay that has brought the Tube network to a halt
- Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans marched in front of the Capitol building in San Juan on June 5 to protest plans by Gov. Luis Fortuño to lay off about 30,000 government workers and to privatize some public services.
- Detainees at a federal immigration detention center in South Texas participate in a hunger strike
- A group of 300 almost exclusively black students at Berkeley High School in California protested two racist photos that were posted on Facebook
FYI -
It seems like this web site is the main blog out there where there are posts about civil disobedience against global warming and fossil fuels (particularly coal) -
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
(This user, in particular — http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/author/sparki1969/ — seems to post some of those blog entries)
Here are some of those links from that site — as well as others -
http://delicious.com/TobanB/direct_action
By the way -
Here’s a related post on my blog -
Eco-’criminals’ and eco-’terrorists’
http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=1273