Experiments with truth: 8/27/09

Experiments with truth: 8/27/09

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 8/27/09</h1> <ul> <li>Hundreds of peace activists converged on Downing Street yesterday to <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/britain/Wave-of-protest-greets-Israeli-PM" target="_blank">protest Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s meeting with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu</a>. They demanded an end to Israel&#8217;s construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank, the &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; of east Jerusalem and its ongoing siege of Gaza.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Workers for a tool maker in Chicago took to the street outside their plant on Tuesday to <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-08/26/content_8615563.htm" target="_blank">protest a unilateral health insurance cut by their employer</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Almost 20,000 Air India employees staged a nationwide protest and three-day hunger strike this week <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/AI-staff-protest-against-cut-in-incentives/articleshow/4934852.cms" target="_blank">against the airline’s proposed move to cut 50% of the productivity-linked incentive</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Dozens of South Miami police officers gathered at City Hall on Tuesday to <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/gables-smiami/story/1202520.html" target="_blank">protest a 7.5 percent pay cut proposed by the administration</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>At least 13,000 workers at South Africa&#8217;s Impala Platinum went on strike Monday to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ifPeY035DCOI2IZPVE0uSt5onfWQ" target="_blank">protest an agreement between the company and union leaders</a> to raise wages by 10 percent.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+8%2F27%2F09&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+8%2F27%2F09" style="border:0" alt="" />