Police detained three opposition leaders and more than 100 other activists in Moscow and St. Petersburg during New Year’s Eve rallies against curbs on political freedoms and a judge’s decision to keep Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the country’s best known prisoner, behind bars.
Bus and truck drivers and powerful citizens groups took to the streets of several Bolivian cities on Thursday to protest a fuel price increase in a challenge to leftist President Evo Morales.
Christians in Egypt staged protests in three cities yesterday to protest the government’s failure to protect them after a bombing blamed on Islamic militants that killed 21 people as worshippers left a church service 30 minutes into the new year.
Workers in around 2,000 blackstone quarries in the Indian state of Ahmedabad have gone on an indefinite strike since Friday to protest state government’s “non-responsive” attitude towards their long-pending demands.
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I think your website is great and I always look forward to reading the “experiments in truth section”.
However, this week the final story is about Protesters in S. Korea. I’m not sure how this is an experiment with truth or related to nonviolence. These Protesters are all former and current military members and extreme right wing radicals. They are backed and encouraged by the current warmongering administration and they themselves want South Korea (in cooperation with the U.S.) to crush and destroy North Korea through war. Additionally, although the current administration has been majorly cracking down and banning all kinds of protests, including all kinds of peaceful ones and even ones celebrating the acknowledged historical democracy movement of the country (for example memorials of the Gwangju massacre) they have been completely allowing and even encouraging such “protests” as these. (as well as encouraging the increasingly government controlled media to report on it, you can even see the in the almost content free story that the police were dispatched to help, not to hinder like normally, Of course all background and information about who these people are, their connections, and what they want are left out repeatedly in stories).
In other words, I’m sorry to say but that story is almost complete garbage and does not fit with anything this site represents.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Hi Paco and thanks for this insightful comment. I think you are right and upon further reflection I probably shouldn’t have included this action in the Experiments. The action itself is rather harsh and not at all appealing to peace. I suppose I was struck by the headline. I appreciate that folks like you are giving these items a closer read and welcome the informed criticism. It’s hard to know all the ins and outs of all the issues we address on this site. So any help is appreciated. Do you recommend any further reading on this issue and the conflict between North and South Korea? I would love to learn more.