Experiments with truth: 8/12/09
After the authorities evicted a Minneapolis woman who staged a months-long, public fight to stay in her foreclosed home, dozens of activists broke into the house, opened it back up and helped her move her belongings back in.
- Labour unions at KGHM in Poland held a two-hour strike on Tuesday to protest a government proposal to sell a 10 percent stake in Europe’s second-biggest copper producer.
- Approximately 19,000 taxis in Honduras joined the general strike late last week, asking for the return of Manuel Zelaya.
- In Greece, nearly 600 immigrant detainees are on a hunger strike protesting the Greek policy of transporting migrants from the cities to remote places before deportation.
- Some 2000 property tax collectors staged a sit-in in downtown Cairo demanding job reforms and a halt to what they called a crackdown on their independent union.
- In Australia, aboriginal elders and families from Ampilatwatja have set up a permanent protest camp outside their government-controlled community in protest against policies that have neglected their needs and desires.
- In Yemen, over 60 illegal Sudanese immigrants – now detained in Amran’s Central Prison – started a hunger strike protesting the silence of the respective authorities towards their plight.
- Shops, schools and businesses were closed across much of Indian Kashmir on Tuesday as separatist groups observed the first anniversary of a prominent Kashmiri leader’s death, who was killed when police fired on a protest march he was leading toward Pakistan’s portion of divided Kashmir in the disputed Himalayan region.
- Hundreds of students from Nigerian universities yesterday marched through the streets of Lagos in a peaceful protest demanding that the Federal Government sign the agreement it had reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities without modifications.
- Golden Arrow bus drivers in South Africa went on an illegal strike yesterday after allegations of racism in the workplace.
