Experiments with truth: 6/7/10
- At least 10,000 protesters marched through the streets of Paris Saturday to rally against the government’s crackdown on immigrants and the recent expulsion of hundreds of Roma.
- Hundreds of people took to the streets in northern Afghanistan to protest a US-led airstrike in Takhar province that killed civilians last Thursday. The demonstrators shouted slogans against American and foreign troops and called for them to be brought to justice.
- About 3,000 Muslims marched Saturday through Indonesia’s capital to the U.S. Embassy to protest plans by a Florida church to burn the Quran on Sept. 11.
- A small sit-in at the University of Connecticut’s administration building entered its third day on Thursday, and students vowed to remain in the building until the university promises to increase janitors’ pay.
- Gaza families of prisoners detained in Israeli jails held a protest Monday against the deduction of 170 shekels from prisoners’ salaries for electricity payments. The protesters gathered at Red Cross headquarters, and chanted slogans blaming the ruling Hamas party for the deduction, which they said increased prisoners’ suffering.
- London Underground workers started a fresh wave of 24-hour strikes, threatening travel chaos for days and costing the economy almost £50 million, in protest at plans to axe 800 jobs. The action, to be followed by further stoppages in October and November, will disrupt Tube services, used by millions of passengers every day.
- More than 4,500 inmates in three prisons in Venezuela have gone on hunger strike to protest overcrowding and mistreatment
- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has canceled a book signing of his new memoir at a major bookstore in London this week over fears of a large turnout from antiwar protesters.
- Shopkeepers observed a general strike and schools were shut for the day on Saturday in Quetta, Pakistan to mourn an overnight attack on minority Shiite Muslims that killed 68 people.
- Greenpeace members protested against Japan in front of its Ankara embassy Monday following the arrest of two group activists in that country after they exposed a whale meat scandal involving a government-sponsored whaling program in the Southern Ocean.
