Experiments with truth: 8/28/09
About 150 migrant children left to survive on their own in Greece have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment on a Greek island where conditions have been described as “abominable” by one European human rights body.
- Burmese activists on Monday held a protest rally against the secret visit to Japan by Htay Oo, Secretary of the pro-junta civilian organization – the Union Solidarity and Development Association – outside the hotel where he is staying.
- About 50,000 people in the Baltic states marked the twentieth anniversary of the ‘Baltic Way’ – when two million people formed a human chain to protest against Soviet rule – with a relay along the original 678km route that runs through Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
- Residents have held a round-the-clock vigil for the last month and sat-in near local government offices to protest the construction of a high-speed rail link between Shanghai and the nearby city of Hangzhou that they say will run too close to their apartments.
- A musician, simply identified as “Yellow King” collapsed on Tuesday in Lagos during a hunger-strike rally to protest activities of pirates in Nigeria, which was organised by coalition of musicians at the National Theatre.
- A group of senior lawyers resorted to a day’s token hunger strike in front of the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday to protest against the alleged caste bias in appointment of government pleaders at the court.
- International climate activists floated two roof tops in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool early Thursday afternoon in anticipation of the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. One of the roofs read, “HELP,” the other, “The Water Is Rising.” The 30 ft. banner behind the roofs declared, “Prevent the Next Katrina, Restore the Gulf, Stop Global Warming.”
- In Egypt, the Tanta Flax and Oils Company strikers demonstrated on Wednesday in front of the Gharbeia Governorate HQ, denouncing privatization and the Governor’s collusion with the Saudi investor.
