Experiments with truth: 7/22/09
Seven climate activists dressed as astronauts stood up during yesterday's Environment and Public Works Senate hearing and unfurled banners that read: “What can the US do in 10 years?” and “Put a man on the moon (check); cut co2 40% (dotted-line-check).”
- A Baptist preacher and community organizer in the racially and economically segregated town of Benton Harbor Michigan is organizing a boycott and pickett of a private golf course built atop a public park.
- Power station employees in Mumbai have gone on indefinite strike after the government failed to resolve their demands for a salary hike.
- After hearing of the sit-in being staged by Vestas wind farm employees on the Isle of Wight, a number of trade unionists in Portsmouth, England agreed to catch the next boat and set up a picket outside.
- Employees of a hospital in northeastern India staged a sit-in to protest a gun firing incident near the hospital’s blood bank last week.
- An indigenous group in Mexico won land rights from the state government in a ruling that stems from a June 29 incident in which men armed with pistols in the employ of local political bosses tried to stop the group’s occupation of a 700-hectare area near the Pacific coast.
