Experiments with truth: 7/8/09
Anti-torture activists hung banners over a Berkeley pedestrian bridge on July 4th.
- Thousands of Zeleya supports took to the streets for the ninth straight day, with protests reported in cities across Honduras.
- Hundreds of Palestinian children participated in a rally in the Gaza Strip, where they chanted slogans against the Israeli embargo and waved banners calling for an end to the blockade.
- Hundreds of peaceful anti-globalization activists gathered in Rome to oppose the G8 summit, but were largely overshadowed by reports of violent protesters.
- Immigrant detainees have been staging on and off hunger strikes at a Texas detention facility for a couple months to protest conditions.
- The Congress of South African Trade Unions is launching a boycott against products from farms where workers are assaulted, harrassed, and exploited.
