Experiments with truth: 9/17/10
- Hundreds of people in Pittsburgh and Binghmaton protested plans of gas drilling in Pennsylvania and New York this week.
- On Wednesday a group of Taiwanese writers, musicians and artists protested a controversial plan by Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co to build oil refineries on ecologically sensitive wetlands along the coast of Dacheng Township.
- Activists from the Campaign Against Climate Change in England came to the Whitehall office of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on Wednesday to protest government subsidies for agrofuel production, which harms the environment, displaces indigenous peoples and leads to food shortages.
- About 20 people came to California’s Ivanpah Valley, 40 miles south of Las Vegas, on Tuesday to protect a 5.6-square-mile stretch of desert sacred to Native American tribes from plans to build the world’s largest system of energy-generating mirrors.
- Several hundred people went to the Seattle Police West Precinct Thursday afternoon to protest the officer-involved shooting death of a Native American man who family said was deaf in one ear and had struggled with homelessness. The man was a carver and couldn’t hear the officer’s verbal commands to drop his knife.
- More than 50 people gathered on a street corner in Omaha’s historic Dundee neighborhood yesterday to protest the planned construction of a CVS pharmacy.
- Dozens of clerical and administrative workers represented by the Teamsters union waved signs and chanted outside the University of California Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest a plan to increase the share of their paychecks set aside for their pensions.
