Experiments with truth: 8/24/09
Legal specialists in Cairo continue their sit-in,which began on July 6, in front of the Ministry of Justice to demand better pay and working conditions, as well as changes to laws that make their work more difficult.
- During last Wednesday’s demonstration in Bil’in, the Palestinian children of the town carried banners and chanted slogans like “We want to sleep,” “No more night raids,” “Let us live,” and “We want Peace.”
- Cindy Sheehan and other like minded activists are traveling to Martha’s Vineyard to demonstrate against the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as President Barack Obama and his family vacation on the island.
- A separatists-sponsored strike to protest against a statement made by Prime Minister’s Manmohan Singh paralysed normal life across Kashmir on Saturday.
- Five parishioners of Mision de Jesus Obrero Catholic Church in Fort Myers have gone on hunger strike to protest both of their priests being moved to new parishes.
- In Honduras, an estimated 5,000 people marched in the capital Tegucigalpa last Thursday in support of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
- In Nepal, locals staged a sit-in in front of the Basantapur Area Police Office of Madi to protest the misbehavior on Saturday night by inebriated police personnel with the locals.
