Experiments with truth: 5/27/09

    • Russian flight attendants for KrasAir vow to continue their 12-day hunger strike despite six hospitalizations
    • Opposition forces in Mauritania staged a demonstration on Monday against the electoral agenda announced by the military junta
    • Four hundred inmates at a prison in Kyrgyzstan went on hunger strike, and three sewed their mouths shut
    • Events held in 117 cities across the U.S. and Canada to protest the California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on same-sex marriage


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