Experiments with truth: 6/30/10
- A group of artists under the name The Good Crude Britannia picketed a party at the Tate Britain on Monday, calling on its bosses to cut their ties with sponsor BP.
- More than 11,000 Egyptians responded to a Facebook call on Friday to protest the death of Egyptian businessman Khalid Said by police brutality.
- Eight people were arrested in San Francisco yesterday for occupying the city’s Human Services Agency in protest of the closing of a homeless shelter and the mistreatment of the people who had used its services.
- A group of US military veterans hung a large banner on an abandoned hotel in Detroit on Saturday to protest and reveal the effect of war spending on American cities. The 10 x 15-foot sign read: “How is the war economy working for you?”
- Greek workers staged walk-offs on Tuesday, as part of the latest in a series of general strikes called to protest pension and labor reforms proposed by the government in an effort to reduce the nation’s soaring deficit.
- More than 1,000 people rallied outside police headquarters in Toronto on Monday to protest the police department’s brutal crackdown and arrest of 900 people, including many journalists, during the G20 summit.
- Some 200 people were arrested in Bangladesh on Monday for violating a ban on processions in thoroughfares during a march that was part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the “failures and excesses” of the government.
- India’s opposition parties have called a nationwide strike on July 5 to protest a rise in fuel prices they say will stoke inflation and hurt poor people.
i always thought that gun control should be mandatory in all places~”*
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