Experiments with truth: 7/21/09
- The Honduran people intensified protests yesterday following Sunday’s announcement that constitutional President Manuel Zelaya will return to his country next weekend.
- Thousands took to the streets this week to protest Disney’s attempt to make health insurance unaffordable for its hotel employees.
- California State University students have begun a a 48-hour vigil to protest expected cutbacks affecting staff and faculty.
- A Pennsylvania woman and ex-police officer has begun a 225 mile walk from the Poconos to Washington DC to raise awareness for discrimination against women in law enforcement.
- Workers from the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight who are set to lose their jobs are staging a sit-in protest at the firm’s offices.
- Hundreds of Italian film-makers and actors held black balloons in Rome yesterday to protest cuts in state funding for the arts.
- Independent newspaper publishers and journalists of Niger have begun a one-week strike to protest President Tandja’s plans to take punitive actions against any media criticism of his upcoming referendum.
- Workers from South African paper, chemical and pharmaceutical companies have started striking over a pay dispute.
- The Fisheries Minister has joined British activists, writers, actors and artists in calling on the Japanese fish restaurant chain Nobu to stop serving endangered bluefin tuna, saying he would boycott the chain.
