Experiments with truth: 8/27/09

    • Around 1,000 protesters arrived at Blackheath common in south London yesterday for the start of the  fourth annual week-long Climate Camp.
    • Hundreds of peace activists converged on Downing Street yesterday to protest Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s meeting with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu. They demanded an end to Israel’s construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank, the “ethnic cleansing” of east Jerusalem and its ongoing siege of Gaza.

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