Experiments with truth: 6/19/09
- More than 100,000 university students, children, and teachers blocked the entrances to university buildings, occupied administrative offices, and marched in protest parades in cities across Germany on Wednesday to protest an educational system they called underfunded and unfair.
- Several thousand people in Latvia protested yesterday against budget cuts that the government says are needed to save the country from bankruptcy
- More than 2,000 workers from the Tack Fat Garment Factory in Cambodia who say they are being laid off from their current jobs and moved to another facility continue their strike for severance pay, which began on June 9th
- Between 2,000 and 3,000 teachers, farmers, miners and others in Bulgaria, led by the country’s largest trade union CITUB, gathered in front of the Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev’s office to protest the government’s failure to protect jobs during this financial crisis
- More than 100 African refugees staged a sit-in in front of the High Commission for Refugees in the Moroccan capital to demand for visas to enter Europe
- Fourteen artists in the southwestern Russian city of Chelyabinsk have begun a hunger strike to protest the confiscation of their studios and the revision of new regulations on renting the studios
- Over 130,000 people in Germany have signed a petition to protest a law that would censor the internet
- Members and supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) staged a sit-in in the national capital yesterday to protest against the violence by the Maoists in the West Medinipur ditrict of West Bengal
- Protesters in the Dominican Republic blocked traffic, set tires on fire and confronted police after a young man was killed at a protest demanding the governement repair roads and undertake other public works earlier this week
