Experiments with truth: 9/8/09
- Hundreds of Palestinian villagers have made a short but symbolic march to the separation wall that Israel has built on their land, a non-violent protest that they regularly undertake.
- More than 300 Iraqis protested yesterday to demand that Syria stop its alleged support for “terrorists and assassins” determined to carry out attacks in Iraq.
- Argentine farmers marked the end of an eight-day sales boycott on Friday with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and to eliminate the current export tariffs system which distorts production and threatens several crops.
- 40 anti-coal activists gathered on the steps of Parliament in Victoria, Australia yesterday to launch a campaign to close one of the state’s coal power stations.
- Following a recent robbery, about 50 disabled persons in Patna, India assembled on the platform of the Patna Junction yesterday morning and held a sit-in demonstration on the tracks to protest the lack of security in areas reserved for them on trains.
- Dozens of Prisoners at a prison in Bryanston, South Africa have gone on an indefinite hunger strike to protest the prison’s administration’s refusal to go through parole processes.
