Experiments with truth: 8/16/10
- About 50 people turned out Saturday for a protest of the new Target store in Chicago, on Broadway just north of Montrose. They were calling for a boycott of the store because of a recent $150,000 contribution to a fund, Minnesota Forward, that in turn gave that money to right-wing conservative Republican candidate Rep. Tom Emmer in his race for Minnesota governor.
- Two Korean priests are publicly fasting outside a government building in the latest protest against the highly controversial Four Rivers project, which they believe will be detrimental to the environment.
- Iranian opposition members in Germany are staging a two-day hunger strike to demand a stop executions and an international investigation of prisons in their home country. A group of 20 on Friday chanted slogans such as “Stop stonings” and “Free political prisoners” on Berlin’s most prominent public spot at the Brandenburg Gate, two days after the purported TV confession of an Iranian woman facing death by stoning on adultery charges.
- On Saturday, all the taxi drivers in the provincial city of Dégolan in Iranian Kurdistan went on strike parking their taxi cabs by the Bolbanabad terminal to protest a 20 day interruption in the compressed natural gas supplies.
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“….right-wing conservative Republican candidate Rep. Tom Emmer in his race for Minnesota governor.”
Is the point of this website to promote nonviolence or promote an specific political agenda?
Rhetorical question.
The point of the experiments is to show how nonviolence is being used around the world to promote issues that we think are just, such as LGBT rights, which is the focus of the Target boycott. It’s not a Democratic site. If you look at my own personal writings, I’ve been just as critical of the Dems as I am of Republicans.