Experiments with truth: 5/26/09

Experiments with truth: 5/26/09

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 5/26/09</h1> <ul> <li>Supporters of same-sex marriage <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/2009/05/26/9578146.html">blocked the streets</a> near City Hall in San Francisco hours after California&#8217;s Supreme Court upheld the Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Environmental <a href="http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Rolls-Royce-protest-group-ready-stay-months/article-1018540-detail/article.html">protesters in the UK have </a><a href="http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Rolls-Royce-protest-group-ready-stay-months/article-1018540-detail/article.html">set up camp</a> outside a Rolls Royce factory where the company is set to refurbish a nuclear submarine</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Staten Islanders <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/05/19/drivers_protest_verrazano_bridge_to.php">protested</a><a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/05/19/drivers_protest_verrazano_bridge_to.php"> a toll increase</a> at the Verrazano Bridge by paying the $10 fee in pennies</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/17284/">2,000 Chinese gathered</a> for Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s arrival in Shanghai to urge the House Speaker to address human rights abuses by the Chinese government</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hundreds are <a href="http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2009_05/0526093.htm">protesting the planned construction of a tuna farm</a> in Costa Rica, which environmentalists say will damage the eco-system</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161481602">Sit-in saves 184-year-old tree</a> in Trinidad</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ecuador&#8217;s president pledged his <a href="http://www.theworldmarch.org/index.php?secc=news&amp;acc=verid&amp;newsid=54">support for the World Without Wars Initiative</a> and will accept large groups of peace marchers arriving from Colombia later this year</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Auckland, New Zealand was brought to a virtual standstill after <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/civil-disobedience-harbour-bridge-2756657">protesters converged on a major bridge</a> to demand that walking and cycling facilities be added</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=Republished+Article&bots=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwagingnonviolence.org%2F2009%2F05%2Fexperiments-with-truth-52609%2F&_rcn=&_rck=Experiments+with+truth%3A+5%2F26%2F09" style="border:0" alt="" />