Experiments with truth: 10/4/10
- An estimated 175,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to participate in the One Nation Working Together rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance.
- Twenty-three Mapuche activists ended their 82-day long hunger strike late Friday evening after Chile’s government agreed to withdraw terrorism charges against the jailed activists and promised a series of reforms to the nation’s much questioned terrorism law.
- Thousands of tribesmen took to the streets in tribal region of North Waziristan on Thursday to protest against strikes by the US drone aircraft in the tribal region.
- In the UK, 7,000 marched through Birmingham on Sunday in response to cuts in public spending.
- As many as 200 workers, including Saudis, Sunday refused to work on a vital project under way in central Jeddah due to non-payment of their dues for the last four months. Another 200 workers remained absent from the work site in protest.
- On Friday, striking dock workers in France paralyzed the country’s main southern port of Marseille as part of a work stoppage that organizers said would last three days to protest pension reform. The disruptive action was spreading to other ports.
- Bonfires burned on Sunday on beaches around New Zealand’s North Island, as part of an ongoing campaign against offshore oil drilling.
