Experiments with truth: 11/12/09
- In Colombia, 300 students at the Technological University of Pereira dressed as zombies and participated in a flash mob dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller to protest the death of public education.
- More than 1,600 Finnish shipyard workers put down their tools Wednesday to protest planned job cuts at STX Finland’s shipyard in Turku.
- Protesters supporting healthcare reform staged more demonstrations at U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s offices in Hartford and Washington on Tuesday; a total of 10 people were arrested.
- Groups including Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, National Assembly, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, United for Peace and Justice, and World Can’t Wait have issued a “Call to Action,” urging their members to protest as soon as possible President Obama’s expected announcement of a troop escalation in Afghanistan, and again the day following an announcement.
- On the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger this Saturday.
- In Toronto, thousands of riders are planning to ditch the subway on Friday to protest proposed fare hikes.
- A number of Indian and Bangladeshi fishermen being held hostage by Somali pirates have gone on hunger strike to protest against the conditions in which they are being held.
- School bus drivers in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 25 miles northeast of Detroit, carried out a one-and-a-half day strike Monday and Tuesday to secure promised wage increases from the private transportation company which services the district.
- Maoist activists in Nepal have blocked major roads leading to the capital, Kathmandu, in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.
- Several hundred people protested on Monday in Belgrade against “growing fascism” in Serbia, marking the International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism on the anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht.
- Twenty activists donned suits and ties and buried their heads in the sand on a Scottish beach on Saturday to protest against a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 powerful nations.
