Experiments with truth: 10/28/09
More than 5,000 people packed the streets of downtown Chicago yesterday morning, chanting, marching and rallying outside the American Bankers Association conference on the third and final day of what was billed as the "Showdown in Chicago."
- For the fifth straight day on Monday, students staged a peaceful sit-in at the University of Vienna to draw attention to overcrowding of lectures and to demand more of a say in how Austria’s higher education institutions are run.
- In Jordan, around 200 people staged a one-hour sit-in on Sunday at the Professional Associations Complex to protest against an assault on veteran opposition leader Leith Shbeilat by anonymous individuals earlier that day.
- Cabin crew for the Spanish airline Iberia went on a two-day strike this week in protest against a four-year wage freeze, which forced the cancellation of more than 400 domestic and international flights.
- Five people were arrested and released, and two were injured — one bleeding from his mouth — after more than 120 people were forcibly removed from the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday after interrupting question period with a climate-change protest.
- In New Zealand, nearly 2,000 courts and justice department staff staged a one hour strike yesterday morning to protest the Justice Ministry’s refusal to engage in meaningful pay negotiations.
- Catholic schools will close across Queensland today as teachers take to the streets over a pay dispute. Their 24-hour strike follows a rally by state school teachers outside Parliament House yesterday over their pay campaign.
- All local trains of Mumbai on the Central and the Harbour lines were running behind schedule as motormen went on strike in protest against overwork and fatigue.
