Experiments with truth: 8/20/09

Experiments with truth: 8/20/09

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Young Municipal Building to protest Mayor Dave Bing&#8217;s proposal to cut salaries by 10 percent.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gaHe17fAkjl6eG8byujadpzyV-tQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A strike by workers at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool</a> over plans to axe 27 jobs is to go ahead today after last-ditch talks failed to resolve a row over jobs.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/other-uk-business/2009/08/19/royal-mail-drivers-in-birmingham-in-new-one-day-walk-out-65233-24474471/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Postal services in Birmingham was disrupted by another strike</a> yesterday as a bitter row continues between the Royal Mail and its drivers. Around 80 drivers based at the Mail Centre and 100 at Coventry will join the protest by 1,500 of their co-workers as well.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Scores of employees at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), deputies and activists on Wednesday <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/281989,unrwa-employees-activists-stage-sit-in-to-protest-services-cutback.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">staged a one-hour sit-in</a> before the agency&#8217;s head office in Amman, Jordan to protest a cutback in the UN body&#8217;s services to about 1.9 million Palestinian refugees living in the country.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://arabist.net/arabawy/2009/08/19/a-day-without-busses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A strike by city bus drivers in Cairo ended</a> yesterday after the government gave in to most of their demands.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Over 1,000 sacked Mongla Port <a href="http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=92651&amp;cid=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">workers in Bangladesh ended a sit-in</a> Wednesday evening, after three days of protest, on the condition that their demands would be met.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Iran, a large number of detainees of the nationwide uprising who have been under severe physical and psychological tortures <a href="http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/7036/1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">have gone on hunger strike</a> since Saturday of Evin prison, and other detainees joined the strike on Monday. Also, some 40 members of the families of detainees have gone on hunger strike in their support outside the prison.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/43171.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A strike by employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)</a> affected telecommunication services across the India on Wednesday. And the All India Graduate Telecom Officers Association (AIGETOA), with over 10,000 engineers as its members, has called for an indefinite strike.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+8%2F20%2F09&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />