Experiments with truth: 8/26/09

The Editors August 26, 2009

Within 300 feet of the Massey Energy’s Edwight mountaintop removal blasting site, two protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners from their 80-foot-high platforms to call on federal agencies to crack down on the scandal-ridden West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) and stop the unsafe and reckless blasting in the area.

On Monday, hundreds of Zelaya supporters rallied near the hotel where an OAS delegation is holding talks with the coup government in an effort to seek the return of the ousted president.

The Federation of Workers’ Unions of Niger, which represent the country’s seven trade unions, and an opposition coalition plan a three-day general strike starting today. The strike is in support of a demand for a 50 percent increase in the salaries of government workers and a 50 percent increase in the state’s contribution to their pensions.

Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world’s second-largest producer of the metal, said mining at the world’s biggest platinum mine in South Africa was halted by a strike in protest at delays securing a wage agreement.

Argentine farmers will launch a seven-day strike starting on Friday that will freeze grain and beef sales from one of the world’s biggest suppliers of corn, beef and soybeans, to protest the government’s farm policy.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) activists staged a die-in yesterday at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)’s newly opened downtown banking centre to protest its continued financing of Alberta tar sands production.

In Gibraltar, workers with a subcontractor on the Waterport Terraces estate walked out yesterday in protest at not being paid for three months.

A small group of education advocates in California began a weeklong fast Tuesday to call attention to state budget cuts affecting the Oxnard School District.

Around 100 employees of the cash-strapped public carrier Air India joined their counterparts from other parts of the country yesterday on a three-day hunger strike over delay in payment of salaries.

Tags: Canada, Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes, United States

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