Experiments with truth: 9/14/09
A huge police presence, with officers on trail bikes, horses and in helicopters, spent yesterday afternoon defending Australia's Hazelwood power station from about 500 environmentalists, 22 of whom made individual attempts to infiltrate the plant. All were subdued and arrested.
- Austrian dairy farmers are on strike to protest falling milk prices and are planning separate actions such as tractor drives and milk giveaways also planned as well.
- About 30 Foodstuffs distribution center workers in Christchurch, New Zealand went on strike Saturday to protest the company’s refusal to increase their wages and improve working conditions.
- Dozens of fire trucks from the Israeli Fire and Rescue Services in Tel Aviv drove slowly in a convoy yesterday morning toward the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem to protest poor working conditions and a lack of equipment.
- A Filipino priest who’s also an environmental/human rights advocate traveled some 117 kilometers by bike with twelve others to protest the 200-megawatt Kamanga Power Plant.
- Journalists in Hong Kong have led a march with scores of people dressed in black to protest the alleged police beatings of three reporters covering recent unrest in western China. Demonstrators held placards reading “respect press freedom” and “reporting the news is not crime”.
