Experiments with truth: 12/7/09
Several hundred demonstrators took to the streets of the Italian capital Rome on Saturday to protest against the country's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. They did so after several internet bloggers called for a 'No Berlusconi Day'.
- Thousands of protesters have taken part in what is believed to be Scotland’s largest ever protest in support of action on climate change. The event, called The Wave, urged world leaders to agree a legally-binding deal at the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen next week.
- Hundreds of hotel workers rallied along the Sunset Strip on Friday, warning Los Angeles-area employers that they would not accept pay cuts, reduced benefits or other givebacks.
- More than 30 youth from Australia, Mexico, India, Sweden, the US, Germany, and around the world staged a “die-in” today outside the main plenary at COP15 with the message – “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “Real Deal Saves Lives”.
- About 200 protesters, including about 40 striking Steelworkers members from Sudbury, protested in New York last Thursday, as Vale CEO Roger Agnelli received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Citizenship Award from the Business Council for International Understanding.
- On Dec. 4 tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s sudden liquidation of the government-owned Central Light and Power Company (LFC) the night of Oct. 10.
