Experiments with truth: 8/7/09

    •  Four port workers, who were sacked for attempting to create two independent unions, are on hunger strike in the Panamanian port of Balboa.
    • Normal life was paralysed in Manipur for 48-hours this week, due to a general strike to protest the killing of a youth.

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