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Experiments with truth: 5/17/10

by Meg Pedersen | May 17, 2010, 10:22 am

Thousands of people formed a human chain in Okinawa, Japan yesterday to protest the movement of a US military base there.

500 Afghan villagers demonstrated outside their governor’s office on Friday to protest a recent US-backed raid that killed civilians.

Thousands of villagers in India facing displacement by steel giant POSCO are staging sit-in protests during what they have dubbed “resistance week,” which lasts through May 21.

Communications worker union members marched through Johannesburg, South Africa demanding wage increases.

Women vendors in Nagamapal, India staged a sit-in yesterday to protest continued price hikes. The sit-in condemned a government official’s visit to the region and shops and businesses were also closed in protest

160 Russian tractor factory workers have begun a hunger strike after not being paid for five months. They are also fundraising for a plane ticket for President Medvedev to come and mediate.

A gay pride parade meant to protest rights violations against sexual minorities was violently disrupted by police in Belarus on Saturday.

People gathered in the Maldives last week, clad in red shirts, to protest rising electricity tariffs.

Saturday was International Day of Protest for Lolita’s Retirement, in support of an orca whale at Miami’s Seaquarium, who lives in the smallest whale tank in North America and possibly the world.

Gun control activists protested outside an NRA conference in Charlotte, NC, saying discussion of gun violence was missing from the conference.

Posted under Afghan War, Animal rights, Asia, Europe, Gun control, Labor, LGBT rights, Militarism, Protests, Russia, Sit-ins, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States

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