Experiments with truth: 8/17/09
- About 100 people dropped to the ground at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center on Thursday as part of a flash mob to protest climate change. The event was organized by Peaceful Uprising, a new organization launched by Tim DeChristopher, the University of Utah student who famously disrupted a Bureau of Land Management auction of oil and gas leases last December.
- Around 60 gay-rights supporters attended the “Kiss-in for Equality” in San Diego on Saturday to demand the right to legally marry in California. Similar kiss-ins were staged in more than 50 other cities throughout the nation.
- Over 30,000 past or current employees of 29 companies are on strike in Serbia to protest layoffs, unpaid wages, overdue severance packages, and a variety of other government policies.
- Hundreds of Iraqi journalists marched through Baghdad on Friday to protest against government censorship and intimidation.
- Dozens of Gazan fishermen called for an end to Israeli attacks on fishing boats and an end to the siege on the Strip in a protest outside of the UN headquarters in Gaza City Thursday.
- Twenty-one Georgian citizens are on hunger strike in a refugee camp in Poland to protest bad treatment by representatives of the border service.
- Video of Danish police officers beating Iraqi refugees last week sparked a demonstration by thousands who demanded the Iraqis be allowed to stay in Denmark and led to a hunger strike by some of the refugees.
- A flotilla of 16 speedboats, yachts and a commercial salmon troller sailed up the Sacramento River to the State Capitol on Sunday to protest plans for a “peripheral canal” that they believe will destroy the Delta’s ecosystem.
