Experiments with truth: 1/21/11
- Around 15 people staged a sit-in at an RBS-owned insurance company in Glasgow to protest bankers’ bonuses.
- A swarm of between 50 and 100 AFL-CIO union workers crashed the Mortgage Bankers Association summit on the future of mortgage servicing in Washington, DC on Wednesday to protest the government’s bailout of the financial system.
- The US Airline Pilots Association picketed at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday to bring attention to what it sees as US Airways’ deliberate efforts to drag out contract negotiations and keep concessionary labor contracts in place long past their intended duration.
- Almost 500 backers of the college radio station KUSF poured into the University of San Francisco’s Presentation Theater on Tuesday to protest university President Stephen A. Privett’s decision to sell the station’s frequency and shift to an online-only format.
- About 150 people opposing “fracking” in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale deposits demonstrated at incoming Governor Tom Corbett’s inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, unfurling a banner which stated their position: “Stop the Drilling.”
- Eight protestors were arrested after angry workers staged a sit-in at a downtown Minneapolis Chipotle restaurant yesterday morning over the firing of hundreds of undocumented workers.
- Tunisian police today fired shots in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers associated with the rule of ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali quit the government.
