Experiments with truth: 7/30/09
Greenpeace activists in China unfurled a banner condemning the use of coal, near one of the Beijing's largest coal-fired power plants.
- Workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have vowed to remain after a court refused to evict them yesterday. Hundreds of protesters have already flocked to the island in support of the workers and thousands more are expected now that police in Somerset England have canceled the Big Green Gathering, angering festival-goers.
- Environmentalists in Taiwan rallied outside the Environmental Protection Administration yesterday to protest the expansion of a coal-fired power plant in Kaohsiugn City.
- A man from the Dongria Kondh tribe in the Orissa region of India bought a share in the British mining company Vendanta Resources in order to appeal to the shareholders to not raze the rich tropical forest of his state.
- More than 300 workers from the Sydney West Area Health Service have staged a walk-out to protest understaffing and the potential outsourcing of jobs.
- Hundreds of Pennsylvania state employees demonstrated outside the state house in Harrisburg on Tuesday to express their discontent at the prospect of not receiving paychecks due to a budget impasse.
- Travel giant Thomas Cook is facing a boycott by 800,000 trade unionists over plans to close its three Dublin stores, thereby putting 77 people out of work.
