Experiments with truth: 8/6/09
- More than 3,500 workers at South African telephone group Telkom in four of South Africa’s nine provinces began a two-day strike on Monday to push demands for pay increases, only days after the end of a five-day strike by tens of thousands of council workers that saw rubbish pile up on the streets and key services paralysed.
- Hundreds of physically disabled people staged a sit-in protest in New Delhi on Monday against non-inclusion of disability in rights to Education bill. Activists of the Disabled Rights Group,an NGO,said that the bill excludes more than 20 million children who are specially-abled.
- Hundreds of Saudi women students held a rare protest at a university over alleged corrupt admission policies. After being turned away on admissions day at Taif University, south of the holy city of Mecca, the female students held a sit-in and blocked streets and the entrance to the university.
- On Monday, followers of the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya began a hunger strike in front of the building of the Professors College of Middle Education from Honduras to demand his immediate return to power.
- A group of environmental activists calling themselves the Camp for Climate Action Scotland (CCAS), are planning to use this week to stage a number of acts of civil disobedience within Central Scotland to protest the coal industry.
- Missionary schools across Pakistan closed on Monday in a three day protest against the deaths of up to seven Christians after an angry mob of Muslims torched 40 houses and a church in the remote village of Gojra.
- In Sri Lanka, a group of unemployed graduate went on a hunger strike in front of the Fort Railway Station demanding employment opportunities at government institutes.
- More than two dozen Thomas Cook PLC employees were arrested by Irish police on Tuesday after they defied a court order by occupying one of the travel company’s Dublin locations.
- Two Palestinian families who have been forced to leave their homes in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) have staged a sit-in protest.
- Around 45 workers occupied Orchard Lodge, the only secure children’s unit in London, after a meeting in which they were told the building in William Booth Road, Anerley, was closing.
