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Experiments with truth: 8/26/09
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/08/experiments-with-truth-82609/
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- 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.
