Experiments with truth: 9/9/10
- Over a million people flooded the boulevards of cities from Paris to Marseille on Tuesday to protest the government’s proposals to change the pensions system.
- Several teachers staged a protest in front of the Iranian parliament to protest the firing of their part time colleagues.
- About 120 inmates at the Monterey County jail are continuing a hunger strike that began last Wednesday to protest a new policy that reduced their allotments of soap.
- Several dozen food-service workers at George Mason University went on strike yesterday to protest working conditions in the dining halls.
- A “flash mob” of some 200 people gathered in front of the regional governor’s office in the western Russian city of Samara to protest the disallowing of some candidates to register for upcoming elections.
