Experiments with truth: 8/31/09
- Dozens of advocates for national health care staged a flash mob action at the opening of a new Whole Foods store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan last Thursday.
- About 125 postal workers in Scotland walked out for 24 hours last week in protest at the sacking of a colleague.
- Workers at Panama’s free trade zone, from truck drivers to janitors, plan to stage a one-day strike this week to protest government plans to hike taxes and fees.
- About 30 people in Bridgwater, England occupied a pool over the weekend with banners and swim gear to protest the city government’s plans to shut it down and build a supermarket.
- Approximately 100 members of the United Auto Workers union rallied in front of Senator Diane Feinstein’s San Francisco office this weekend to protest the closure of the NUMMI plant in Fremont.
