Experiments with truth: 6/24/09
- Staffers and Representatives were treated to a flash mob on Tuesday at Longworth Cafeteria on Capitol Hill. Over 30 young activists froze mid-motion for two minutes before raising their voices in unison and yelling “Solve climate change now!”
- More than a dozen New York City beekeapers gathered Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to support a bill that would legalize beekeeping in the nation’s largest metropolis.
- Several hundred hotel workers and supporters picketed in front of the Hilton in Crystal City, Virginia to protest an imposed contract that cut salaries and benefits.
- More UK power plant workers go on strike to show solidarity with the 647 Lindsey Oil Refinery workers who were dismissed last week for staging their own unauthorized strike.
- A group of female academics in Italy have called on the wives of world leaders to boycott an upcoming meeting of the G8 in Trieste over Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi‘s “offensive” attitude toward women.
- Inhabitants from several southern Peruvian provinces blocked important highways on Monday to protest against the land use and the industrial pollution to the environment.
- 6,000 people gathered at the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, effectively shutting it down, to protest looming social service cuts.
