Experiments with truth: 6/23/09
- 40 activists from across the UK gathered on Friday to help an already heavily mined Scottish community in their fight against another open-cast pit. The group has set up camp and is pledging to stay until the project is called off.
- Residents of Park County, Colorado are protesting the contruction of a pit mine that they believe will endanger the community and wildlife.
- Bikers in Tel Aviv, Israel are planning a protest ride across the city to oppose the lack of government support for urban bike riding.
- Ten Greenpeace activists boarded a boat carrying coal for Kingsnorth power station outside of London on Sunday. Six were arrested shortly after boarding, while the four others remained in the crows nest overnight.
- EarthFirst! activists are protesting the expansion of I-70 near Denver, Colorado over concerns of added pollution to an area already plagued by dozens of major polluters and the destruction of over 300 acres of wildlife habitat.
- Hundreds of public sector doctors demanding better wages picketed outside a South African hospital on Monday.
- LGBT activists are planning to protest a Democratic Party fundraiser in Boston on Tuesday headlined by VP Joe Biden in response to the party’s backpedaling on the repeal of DOMA.
- Internet users in China are planning a Web protest on the day that the Chinese government is making the controversial “Green Dam” software filter mandatory on personal computers.
