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Experiments with truth: 8/17/11
Original article at http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/08/experiments-with-truth-81711/
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- A program that is central to President Obama’s immigration enforcement strategy has drawn protests by Latino and immigrant organizations in six major cities on Tuesday, as those groups stepped up their confrontation with the administration over the fast pace of deportations.
- Anna Hazare, India’s leading anti-corruption activist, began a hunger strike in police custody following his arrest Tuesday morning. His unlawful arrest sparked massive outrage across the country and widespread protests were witnessed.
- Bolivian indigenous activists started a long protest march on Sunday from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory.
- On Monday, hundreds of people attending the Midwest Rising! Convergence took to the streets of St. Louis to protest Bank of America and Peabody Coal. Fifteen community and climate activists were arrested.
- Jubilant students at Glasgow University were celebrating a victory on Monday night after one of the longest sit-ins in British history. The students will move out at the end of the month after reaching agreement with the university which they say will ensure no further cuts and a new club.
- Roughly 25 percent of the Trinidad’s police officers joined in a one-day strike on Monday to protest the government’s offer of a 5 percent pay raise, which the union says that isn’t enough.
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