Experiments with truth: 6/12/09

    •  Nine Greenpeace activists in the Czech Republic scaled a smokestack at a coal-fueled power plant on Wednesday and unfurled a banner that read “Stop CO2.” Four of the protesters spent the night on the power plantbefore descending.
    • Upwards of 300 Palestinians and their international supporters, rallied near the Erez crossing in northern Gaza on Wednesday to call for the crossing to be opened, thus putting an end to the three year siege.
    • Close to 6,000 people marched in Manila on Wednesday to protest any attempt to amend the constitution and scrap next year’s presidential election.
    • Bus drivers in China’s Bazhong City went on strike over low wages, but returned to their posts when the municipal government agreed to negotiate a pay increase.

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