Experiments with truth: 7/7/09

The Editors July 7, 2009

The Honduran public prosecutor’s office is investigating the deaths of two protesters shot in a scuffle with armed security forces at the airport in Tegucigalpa on Sunday, where tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered to await the arrival of ousted president Manuel Zelaya.

Peru’s largest labor union has called for a national protest from July 7-9, demanding the resignation of President Alan Garcia’s Cabinet, the repeal of decrees Garcia issued to implement a US free trade pact and an independent investigation into the June 5th clash between police and striking Amazonian Indians. Garcia responded by authorizing the military to intervene in all labor and social protests this week.

A logging crew turned back Monday after they were confronted by about 30 protesters who had erected barricades blocking the road to a timber sale in Oregon’s Elliott State Forest.

Transport groups in the Panay and Guimaras regions of the Philippines will go on a two-day strike next week to protest continued increases of oil prices and a controversial government order that significantly raises fines for traffic violations beyond the earnings of most drivers and operators.

Although they never intended to set foot in Israel, the eight Free Gaza activsts who were apprehended at sea by the Israeli navy last week and then jailed in Jeruslam have been deported.

Thousands of electricians went on strike around Ireland on Monday to protest government and employer efforts to cut pay during a record recession.

Almost half of the more than 3,000 South African Broadcasting Corporation workforce is expected to start protest actions over wage disputes this week.

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

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