Experiments with truth: 5/3/10
- There were more than 100 demonstrations around the United States this weekend to protest the Arizona immigration law. In DC, thousands of people supported 4 students who marched all the way from Florida, and high-profile activists including Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Il) were arrested. Other marches took place in Chicago, Maine, San Francisco, and Denver, as well as many other locations.
- Thousands gathered to march in Havana, Cuba on Saturday for International Workers Day, also known as May Day.
- 200,000 people demonstrated in Istanbul for May Day on Saturday to demand more secure employment and better working conditions. It was the first approved May Day gathering in thirty years. Other demonstrations took place in Kolkata, Jakarta, and around the world.
- Teachers picketed in the Philippines on Wednesday to demand a better insurance system.
- Separatists staged a sit-in in India on Saturday to demand the creation of a separate state of Vidarbha.
- About two hundred Socialist lawmakers and supporters began a hunger strike in Albania this weekend to demand a recount of an allegedly rigged election.
- Protests continue in Greece in the face of extreme budget cuts as the economy verges on collapse.
- Italian unions shut down opera houses this weekend to protest an emergency decree that would affect arts funding.
- On Wednesday, scrap metal dealers in Jamaica protested a government decision to shut down the trade.
- 200 people gathered in Montana to protest a pro-Nazi film screened by a white supremacist group.
- An Albuquerque woman was on day 16 of a hunger strike on Friday to raise awareness about refugees who flee violence for poverty in the U.S.
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