Experiments with truth: 5/25/09

    • Workers for India’s UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) protest privatization at company headquarters around the country today
    • In West Virginia, activists engaged in civil disobedience at mountaintop removal and coal sludge impoundment sites
    • Some 250 people, almost all African-Americans, marched in Virginia to protest racist court decision in shooting death of black teen
    • Tens of thousands of Tawainese protest president Ma Ying-jeou in Taipei and Kaohsiung

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