Experiments with truth: 6/9/10
- Eight Roman Catholic women staged a one-minute demonstration for women’s ordination yesterday in St Peter’s Square before police intervened.
- Workers gathered outside the annual general meeting of Taiwanese IT giant Foxconn in Taipei yesterday to protest a rash of employee suicides.
- Hundreds of civil servants rallied outside the finance ministry building in Madrid yesterday to protest government austerity measures. Tens of thousands more stayed home from work.
- Concerned citizens of Lexington, Kentucky rallied at a local branch on Sunday to protest PNC Bank’s financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. They released a banner inside attached to some helium balloons, which said “PNC + Your Money = Toxic Tap Water.”
- Greenpeace activists cut fishing nets to release endangered bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Malta on Monday.
- Approximately 650 workers from the Arco Steel company in Sadat City, Egypt continued their strike for the eighth consecutive day yesterday to protest the breach of a contract.
- Several Yemenis staged a sit-in in front of the Prime Minister office in Sanaa yesterday to protest the “indiscriminate” shelling of the southern town of Daleh.
