Experiments with truth: 9/15/09
- The satirical Billionaires for Wealthcare group marched alongside the tens of thousands of conservative activists in Washington DC on Saturday. The self-described “grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, HMO lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others profiting off our broken health care system” joined the march to “thank the teabaggers for protecting health-care industry profits.”
- Hundreds gathered at a Philadelphia area shopping mall on Saturday to protest a video arcade run by the military, which also uses it as a recruiting station. Six of the activists were arrested.
- Greenpeace embarked on a 15-day journey with five elephants yesterday in Thailand that it’s calling The Chang(e) caravan. Chang is Thai for Asian Elephant, a species that is facing imminent extinction due to loss of forest cover. The aim of the caravan is to call upon world leaders, Barack Obama in particular, to take immediate action to avert climate chaos.
- Two climate change activists from the Climate Rush group were arrested Sunday after breaching security at Oxford Airport in Britain. They were taking part in a protest picnic against the airport’s expansion, when they decided to jump over a fence to reach the runway area.
- A mostly student-led movement held a series of demonstrations at Egyptian embassies and university campuses in the United States, Canada and Israel yesterday to support a 25-year-old Egyptian blogger, who was jailed in 2007 for criticizing the Egyptian president and “insulting Islam.”
- A group of 300 Malaysians have organized an event called “Fast for the Nation, Peace for Malaysia” that is set to take place tomorrow to commemorate the country’s formation and promote peace among all.
[...] Street theatre might help. Let’s hear more from The Billionaires for WealthCare (via Waging Nonviolence): [...]
Here’s a previous write-up about opposition toward that Philly military centre -
http://phillyimc.org/en/regional-effort-grows-shut-down-army-experience-center