Experiments with truth: 1/8/10
- About 500 striking Algerian workers blocked a main road near the capital on Thursday—the latest in a series of outbreaks of unrest over price inflation and living conditions. They were confronted with lines of riot police equipped with water cannons and armored vehicles.
- When the Olympic torch passed through Manitoba yesterday it was trailed by seven horses carrying leaders from native communities, who were drawing attention to the plight of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
- Over 800 members of UNITE HERE Local 2 and 400 supporters blocked the San Francisco Hilton’s main entrance for several hours to protest the hotel chain’s proposal to cut starting wages for new hires by 25 percent. 140 were arrested.
- About 5,000 demonstrators gathered yesterday in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan to protest the deaths of children in an explosion on Wednesday that they blamed on U.S. forces.
- Five activists in Homestead Florida are fasting to protest the deportation of immigrants with families.
- Several thousand DeKalb County school employees dressed in black yesterday to protest the superintendent’s $15,000 raise, which comes after the board slashed their pay increases and implemented a one-day furlough.
- Fujitsu workers in east Manchester, Warrington, Bolton and Crewe are taking part in a 48-hour walkout as part of the UK’s first ever national IT sector strike to protest redundancies, pay and pensions.
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