Experiments with truth: 11/19/09
- About 2,000 students blocked the exits of a building where University of California regents voted to hike tuition 32 percent next year. After the vote was announced students lay down en masse to symbolize what they called the death of an affordable UC education.
- Dozens of protesters gathered outside Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s office in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday to protest a fundraiser for the notoriously racist settler community of Hebron being held at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, this Saturday.
- Greenpeace activists released a floating banner inside the Chamber of Commerce Regional Government Affairs convention in San Francisco yesterday to protest Chamber president Tom Donahue’s lobbying for big polluters. The banner read “Donahue’s Climate Lies: Bad for Business, Bad for America.”
- Two priests and 25 tribal leaders from Mindoro Island (200 kilometres south of Manila) have gone a hunger strike to stop three nickel mine operations that will eventually cover almost 20 per cent of the island’s land mass.
- More than 100 youth climate activists lay down in the lobby of a Royal Bank of Canada branch in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories and pretended to be dead in protest of the banks’ funding of Alberta tar sands projects.
- After a 45-minute sit-in to protest budget cuts, SUNY students held a mock eulogy mourning many of the programs that could be eliminated.
