Experiments with truth: 6/15/09
- Thousands of protesters clash with police in Iran over the weekend after President Ahmadinejad declares victory in an election that supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi say was rigged
- Protests continue in Peru after the Congress temporarily suspends the two controversial land-use laws that sparked the protests and civil disobedience over two months ago
- Railway workers in Finland begin a one-day walk-out today to protest a recent announcement that the state-owned Finnish Railways is planning on firing 1,500 workers
- More than 10,000 South Koreans demanded President Lee Myung-Bak resign at an anti-government rally on the 22nd anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising last week
- Bus drivers in China end strike over low wages and long hours as the municipal government agrees to negotiate a pay increase
- Employees of the South Africa Broadcasting Company (SABC) sat in at the chief executive’s office to demand a pay increase and the sacking of the SABC board
- Six thousand dock workers in the Ivory Coast vow to continue their strike until pay and working conditions are improved, although they have now begun to receive arrears payments
- Sunnis launched a nationwide strike in Pakistan on Saturday to protest the killing of the respected religious scholar Sarfraz Naeemi and five others in a suicide attack
