Experiments with truth: 10/8/09
Some 10,000 high school students here formed a human peace symbol during a mammoth rally held Wednesday in support of the call for world peace and non-violence. Meanwhile,more than 2,000 students, soldiers from the Philippine military, government officials and NGO workers joined the colorful World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Manila’s Malate district.
- About 400 teachers, students and supporters rallied outside Sweetwater Union High School District headquarters in San Diego County yesterday to push for a better contract and for stalled negotations to start up again.
- More than 5,000 Montreal blue collar workers staged a four-hour strike yesterday to press the city for a new contract.
- 1,700 employees of Iran’s Pars Wagon Company, maker of freight wagons and passenger coaches, went on hunger strike yesterday to protest delays in salary payment.
- A two-day sit-in by over 10,000 farmers from northeastern India ended yesterday with the government assuring to look into their demands.
