Experiments with truth: 6/3/09

The Editors June 3, 2009

The 17 Uighur prisoners in Guantanamo awaiting a court-ordered release staged a protest for visiting journalists with signs that demanded their freedom. It remains to be seen if the Pentagon will allow news organizations to publish their photos.

Members of the indigenous Gwich’in Nation in Alaska used their bodies to spell out “Save the Arctic” and sketch the outline of a caribou for an aerial image that was presented to environmental diplomats gathering in Bonn Germany this week.

Dozens of cyclists blocked Westminster Bridge in London to protest the country’s failure to reduce carbon emissions.

Protests by Mohawk Indians over the arming of Canadian customs officers at an Ontario border crossing have led to the indefinite closure of that crossing, which is an important truck shipping route.

About 20 Los Angeles area teachers staged a camp-out in front of a middle school to protest budget cuts and proposed layoffs.

European Central Bank staff are planning the first labor action in the reserve’s 10 year history to demand more of a say over how pensions and pay are set.

More than 140 Ontario lawyers, which amounts to virtually every experienced defence council in Toronto, have vowed to stop taking serious cases until there is a hike in legal-aid fees.

Mobile phone users in Syria, alerted through Facebook and other networking sites, staged a boycott of mobile services to protest the high tariffs charged by the country’s two service providers.

Tags: Blockades, Boycotts, Canada, Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Strikes, United States

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