Experiments with truth: 6/17/09

The Editors June 17, 2009

Forty-six Afghan migrants have gone on hunger strike in Indonesia to press their case for political asylum in Australia

Forty demonstrators were detained and many injured in Tbilisi as Georgian police crack down on protests against President Saakashvili

A general strike called by Nepal’s former Maoist rebels to protest against the alleged killing of one of their leaders has shut down Kathmandu

Students in over 70 German cities will avoid classes and participate in demonstrations all week to protest tuition fees and the country’s decision to model its degrees on more internationally recognised bachelor and master degrees, which many argue do not allow for in-depth exploration of a subject

Earlier this month, students from the State University of Haiti (UEH) began a series of militant demonstrations and blocked roads in downtown Port-au-Prince to protest the failure of President René Préval to promulgate a measure raising the minimum wage

In response to an immigration raid on campus last Friday that led to the deportation of six janitors, students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London held a sit-in and have now begun negotiations with the university

Since May 16, youths and campesinos have been staying at a protest encampment in the Dominican Republic in an effort to prevent the construction of a cement factory that they say would displace 500 peasant families and degrade the water

In Ontario, Canada, about 100 protesters conducted a sit-in that blocked dozens of dump trucks on a road leading to the site of a controversial landfill in Tiny Township

In the UK, around 20 people went on hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention center yesterday in protest against inadequate medical care.

Tags: Blockades, Canada, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Sit-ins, United States

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