Experiments with truth: 6/30/09

    •  Activists with Rising Tide draped this 25-foot banner on the downtown DC offices of the Environmental Protection Agency.
    • About 24,000 Toronto municipal workers have entered their second week on strike over contract disputes.
    • Union members upset with Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter over recent vetoes turned their backs to him in protest at an event commemorating the site of the 1914 Ludlow massacre of striking coal miners.

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