Experiments with truth: 6/30/09
Activists with Rising Tide draped this 25-foot banner on the downtown DC offices of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- About 24,000 Toronto municipal workers have entered their second week on strike over contract disputes.
- Niger’s opposition party is calling for a nationwide lockdown on Wednesday to protest President Mamadou Tandja’s plans to change the constitution that would allow him to run for a third five-year term.
- A three and half week hunger strike that involved over 100 Los Angeles teachers and district personnel has come to an end. Despite the attention it brought, participants are planning to shift strategy in their fight against budget cuts and layoffs.
- Around 12 parents in Glasgow, Scotland have been occupying a primary school for three days to protest the planned demolition of the building as part of wider spending cuts.
- As many as 1,000 police cadets in southwest Bangladesh went on a hunger strike after an officer allegedly hit one of the cadets.
- Union members upset with Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter over recent vetoes turned their backs to him in protest at an event commemorating the site of the 1914 Ludlow massacre of striking coal miners.
- San Francisco LGBT labor group Pride at Work held a vigil on the steps of City Hall protesting the mayor’s deep budget cuts to HIV programs.
