Experiments with truth: 7/8/11
- Tens of thousands of Syrians demanding the downfall of the nation’s government poured into the streets of the central city of Hama on Friday.
- Thousands of Yemenis angered by President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s first televised address since an attack on his palace protested across the country on Friday and renewed their call for the formation of an interim council, which they say would be the only way for acting president Abd-Rabou Mansur to end the stalemate.
- About 600,000 public sector workers went on strike across Britain last week to protest proposed cuts in pensions.
- In the latest countrywide opposition protests against Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime on Wednesday at least 180 people were arrested in Minsk and 220 in other regional centres.
- A group of Nashville students is protesting the deportation proceedings for a recent high school graduate with rallies outside the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office calling for an end to the county’s participation in a federal program that screens anyone who is arrested for immigration status.
- Police have tear gassed several hundred protesters marching toward the offices of Kenya’s president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis.
- Hundreds of people in eastern Afghanistan gathered yesterday to protest the deaths of up to 13 civilians, including women and children, in a Nato air strike.
