Experiments with truth: 8/13/09

The Editors August 13, 2009

A column of about 10,000 anti-coup protesters marched into Tegucigalpa on Tuesday to demand the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. An additional 4,000 Zelaya supporters gathered in San Pedro Sula, the country’s second largest city.
A peace rally of some 26,000 people brought the New Caledonia capital Noumea to a standstill on Wednesday to protest against recent violence between striking workers and police in France’s South Pacific territory.

In Washington state, more than 80 people participated in a vigil and nonviolent direct action against the Trident nuclear weapons system at the Bangor nuclear submarine base on Monday to mark the 64th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nine were arrested.

In Wisconsin, nine peace activists were arrested this week at the US military base Mount McCoy. The activists had completed a three-day walk to protest the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the US nuclear stockpile on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For the third time in the last week, faculty members of the Government College in India boycotted classes on Tuesday and staged a demonstration against the delay in the implementation of the revised pay scales recommended by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

On Monday, four protesters entered the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) and locked themselves to the office entrance. They demanded that the agency hand over control of key programs to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) and that WVDEP Secretary Randy Huffman resign.

Tags: Experiments with Truth, Labor, Marches, Nuclear weapons, Protests, Strikes, United States, War

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