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Experiments with truth: 7/20/09
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/07/experiments-with-truth-72009/
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For the second consecutive weekend, about 100 people in Salt Lake City staged a "kiss-in" to protest the treatment of two gay men cited for trespassing July 9 after they shared a kiss on the plaza owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- More than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan’s largest city yesterday to protest China’s use of deadly force to quash Uighur protests this month.
- Members of Green Course and Greenpeace delivered over 1,000 letters to Israel’s national infrastructures planning committee and staged a demonstration outside the building yesterday to protest the planned construction of a coal-fired power plant.
- Thousands gathered in Karwar, India to protest plans for a new thermal power plant, which they fear will hurt local fisherman, as well as the region’s ecology.
- Protesters were arrested for blocking Governor Schwarzenegger’s home in L.A. as they demanded the California budget continue to provide a social safety net for people with disabilities.
- The International Transport Workers’ Federation called on its 4.5 million members to boycott ships flying the Honduran flag to protest the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
- Residents of a small town in England are protesting plans for a nearby asbestos transfer station, which they fear will harm the air quality.
- Thirty-six Iranian army officers were arrested for planning to attend a protest rally in their military uniforms as an act of political defiance.
- Dozens gathered to protest the court mandated eviction of an Arab family’s home in East Jeruslam. The group—comprised of local politicans and activists—fear this is part of a larger effort by the Israeli government to promote the Judaization of the eastern city.
