Experiments with truth: 8/26/09

Experiments with truth: 8/26/09

Written By: Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 8/26/09</h1><p style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qI4LfamTnnE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qI4LfamTnnE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li>Within 300 feet of the Massey Energy&#8217;s Edwight mountaintop removal blasting site, two <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/urgent-911-to-epa-osm-fea_b_268335.html" target="_blank">protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners</a> 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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Monday, <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/25/headlines#10" target="_blank">hundreds of Zelaya supporters rallied</a> 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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The Federation of Workers’ Unions of Niger, which represent the country’s seven trade unions, and an opposition coalition plan <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=abRfKTNY5oQU" target="_blank">a three-day general strike</a> 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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world’s second-largest producer of the metal, said mining at the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=aAg3p8SGelO8" target="_blank">world’s biggest platinum mine in South Africa was halted by a strike</a> in protest at delays securing a wage agreement.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Argentine farmers will launch <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE57O6G320090825" target="_blank">a seven-day strike starting on Friday</a> that will freeze grain and beef sales from one of the world&#8217;s biggest suppliers of corn, beef and soybeans, to protest the government&#8217;s farm policy.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Rainforest Action Network (RAN) <a href="http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/08/25/die-in-held-at-new-royal-bank-of-canada-branch-to-protest-the-banks-involvement-in-dirty-oil/" target="_blank">activists staged a die-in yesterday</a> at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)’s newly opened downtown banking centre to protest its continued financing of Alberta tar sands production.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Gibraltar, workers with a subcontractor on the Waterport Terraces estate <a href="http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=17050" target="_blank">walked out yesterday in protest</a> at not being paid for three months.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A small group of <a href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/18/group-begins-fast-to-protest-education-cuts/" target="_blank">education advocates in California began a weeklong fast</a> Tuesday to call attention to state budget cuts affecting the Oxnard School District.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Around 100 employees of the cash-strapped public carrier Air India joined their counterparts from other parts of the country yesterday on <a href="http://www.ptinews.com/news/247235_Air-India-employees-in-Chennai-on-hunger-strike" target="_blank">a three-day hunger strike</a> over delay in payment of salaries.</li> </ul>