Experiments with truth: 3/14/11
- In Wisconsin, more than 100,000 people packed the area around the state’s capitol Saturday to continue a month-long campaign against Governor Scott Walker’s attack on worker rights.
- Massive demonstrations rattled Yemen’s major cities on Saturday after police stormed a sit-in of nearly 100,000 protesters outside Sanaa University in the capital at dawn, leaving at least four protesters dead and over 300 others injured.
- More than 200 Saudis protested outside the Interior Ministry on Sunday to demand the release of detainees in the largest demonstration in the capital since the regional outbreak of pro-democracy unrest.
- In Kuwait, amid heavy security presence and in defiance of the warning issued by the Interior Ministry, the stateless residents (Bedouns) staged demonstrations after Friday prayers in Sulaibiya, Taima and Ahmadi areas demanding their civil rights.
- On Friday in Russia, 150 hunger strikers protested what they say is police pressure on Bashkir nationalists in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.
- In Bahrain, thousands of people held a protest against the Bahraini monarchy outside one of the king’s palaces near Manama on Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to march on another royal palace.
- On Saturday, Azerbaijan police detained more than 30 activists of the opposition Musavat Party when nearly 200 of its members took to the street of Baku to protest against the ruling elite following a similar rally a day before.
- In Spain, thousands of employees of the high-speed AVE trains in Madrid have joined airline staff in their strike against privatization on Sunday.
- In Germany, tens of thousands formed a human chain on Saturday between the Neckarwestheim nuclear plant and the southwestern city of Stuttgart, which are 28 miles (45 kilometers) apart- some waving yellow flags with the slogan “Nuclear power – no thanks.”
