Experiments with truth: 3/31/10
- More than 100 tenants at the Chunping Shopping Mall in Beijing went on hunger strike Monday, asking for the return of their rent. The shop owners have protested and stopped eating for three days as of Monday in front of the shopping mall and two people were hospitalized due to the hunger strike.
- On March 26, several thousand marched in Tegucigalpa to demand an end to the escalation of repression, and against the neoliberal policies of the new government.
- On Monday, about 100 trolleybus drivers went on strike in Ukraine because they are owed back pay and are demanding immediate payment. They also protested against the liquidation of bonuses and deteriorating work conditions..
- On Monday, more than a dozen union members stood in front of the Daimler Trucks North America parts plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, holding signs in protest of manufacturing orders outsourced to the company’s Mexican plants.
- A hunger strike that began on March 18, by several Sahrawi detainees in Moroccan prisons to protest against violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara has expanded to 10 other prisons.
- On the University of Victoria’s campus in Canada, the Food Not Lawns Collective is planning another “planting party,” after the administration moved quickly to remove unendorsed garden beds built by the protesters last week.
- French teachers are protesting violent attacks that have become all too commonplace in schools, an unintended result of budget cutbacks.
- In the Philippines, six political detainees of the Bohol District Jail (BDJ) are on hunger strike an in apparent support for “illegal arrest” of 43 health workers in Morong, Rizal recently.
- On Friday, dozens of unions joined striking Shaw’s workers to escalate the protest across New England after Shaw’s said it was beginning the process of hiring workers to permanently replace the striking employees.
- The public, including members and supporters of the ruling Frelimo Party, boycotted en masse a rally in the southern Mozambican town of Homoine at which the new governor of Inhambane province, Agostinho Trinta, was to have been presented to protest the chronic shortage of drinking water, lack of rubbish collection, and the poor state of the roads in the town.
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