Experiments with truth: 6/18/09
Twelve Greenpeace activists were arrested in Budapest, Hungary for not obtaining a permit to protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office. The activists set up a green tent and brandished placards calling for the money from the sale of carbon emissions be used for environmental projects.
- Students of Tehran University are staging a sit-in to protest the brutal suppression of fellow students, particularly during a recent dormitory raid. More than 120 university professors have collectively resigned and joined the protestors.
- Nearly 200 casino workers protested in Atlantic City Tuesday, stifling traffic on a main road to call attention to unfair worker pay and health benefits.
- Protesters in Bangor Maine gathered across from a Rite Aid on Tuesday brandashing signs and 20 foot inflatable baby bottle to protest the sale of unsafe baby products.
- Twenty people at an immigration center in Bedfordshire, England have been on hunger strike for two days to protest the standard of medical care.
- Four days of protest at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt have brought in 26 Egyptians and foreign nationals. Some have gone on hunger strike and vowed to stay camped out until the Egyptian side opens the border crossing to allow aid and family members through on a permanent basis.
- A popular Italian restaurant chain in Wales is facing a boycott by Assembly workers amid claims it pays staff wages from customer tips.
- Up to 1,200 workers at an oil refinery in Lincolnshire, England staged a walk-out last Thursday after some were threatened with redundancy. Another 140 workers at a power station in Widnes walked out in sympathy on Monday.
- Thousands of Yemenis marched on Wednesday to protest the killing of three foreign hostages who were kidnapped last week along with six others by what is assumed to be al Qaeda.
