Experiments with truth: 7/17/09
- At the Power Shift conference in Australia last weekend, attendees performed in this fantastic flash “dance” mob (video above) – a creative new form of protest. This historic event saw many of Australia’s largest youth organizations gathered together in Sydney to demand – and create – a power shift to renewable energy, green jobs and safe climate future.
- About 24,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Toronto – which includes workers in child care, public health, emergency services, garbage and recycling, social services, planning, permits, inspections, water and sewage treatment, parks and recreation, and animal services – enter the 27th day of their strike for a new contract today.
- Workers from First Bus in Aberdeen, Scotland are staging the 24-hour walkout after union leaders and management failed to reach an agreement on wages.
- Doctors in Pakistan yesterday observed a hunger strike to press the government to take steps for an early and safe recovery of a doctor who was kidnapped last month.
- Medical students in India gave up their protest and fast, which led to more than 30 hunger strikers being hospitalized over the last two weeks, yesterday afternoon after Health Department officials assured them that their demands for increased stipend would be met.
- Niger’s privately owned press will begin a one-week strike Monday in a bid to reverse a presidential decree that provides for sanctions against the media without warning. Radio and television stations will participate in the strike on July 26.
- Prisoners at the US-run Bagram military jail have been staging a mass protest over the past two weeks against their indefinite captivity. According to family members and attorneys, dozens of prisoners have refused to leave their cells since July 1st.
- A group of around 100 US peace activists from Viva Palestina, including former Democratic Congress member Cynthia McKinney, have arrived in the Gaza Strip carrying humanitarian aid.
