Experiments with truth: 6/9/09
- Some 80,000 teachers continue their strike in Chile because they have not been paid their promised bonuses, and more than 50 are arrested for trying to surround the presidential palace
- Italian activists with the No Dal Molin movement broke into the construction site for a massive new US military base in Vicenza, and planted flags and banners of opposition
- On Monday, some 200 people protested at a Berlin airport against a mass deportation of Vietnamese asylum-seekers from Germany and Poland
- Company officials at Ssangyong Motor Corp., South Korea’s smallest carmaker, say they may reconsider mass layoffs, as thousands of unionized workers continue to occupy their plant in the city of Pyeongtaek
- South Africa’s labour federation COSATU, an ally of the ruling ANC, on Thursday backed a call by metal workers for strikes to demand deeper interest rate cuts to help lift growth and save jobs
- Five prisoners in Cuba are on hunger strike to demand better medical treatment, religious attention, the right to call family members and transfers to prisons in their home provinces
- A leading Bollywood union said on Friday it would boycott filming in Australia until the government takes action against people behind a series of violent assaults on Indian students there
- Two dozen hunger strikers at University of California Santa Cruz end their hunger strike as two of their demands are met and negotiations begin with the administration
- Two activists with Cascadia Summer have climbed trees to stop the clear-cutting of 400 acres of forest in Oregon
