Experiments with truth: 9/11/09
12 Iranian exiles on hunger strike for the past 44 days outside the US embassy in London called on America and Britain yesterday to break their silence over an Iraqi attack on a refugee camp that left 11 people dead and 450 others injured.
- Dozens of Duke Energy customers in Charlotte, North Carolina protested a hearing with the NC Utilities Commission Wednesday night, where a 12 percent power bill hike was being proposed.
- 350 Safeway workers in Calgary, Canada started picketing Monday morning after they served strike notice and the company locked them out over contract disputes involving better benefits and less hours.
- India’s Jet Airways pilots have entered their third day on strike protesting the firing of several colleagues. The total number of protesting pilots reached 432 Wednesday, out of 760 at the airline.
- Britain’s postal workers are set to begin a nationwide walkout next week to protest Royal Mail’s plans to change working patterns and modernise the postal service. But strike action has already begun in some parts of the country, meaning as many as 20 million items of post are currently waiting undelivered in sorting offices.
- The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in Kashmir staged its monthly sit-in at a community park yesterday to demand the whereabouts of their missing relatives and punishment for the forces responsible for the custodial disappearances and killings.
- Parents and children gathered outside Rosemead, California’s City Hall on Tuesday night to protest the closure of an after-school program that leaves at least 120 families without child care.
