Experiments with truth: 9/17/09

    • An empty building in Bristol, England has been taken over by the anarchist group Co-Mutiny for a week of “autonomous actions and events” featuring discussions on workers’ solidarity, anti-militarism, and climate justice–plus workshops on radical knitting and radical song writing.
    • Twelve Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a ship off the coast of New Zealand yesterday to protest its shipment of palm kernel, which is used as animal feed, but is harvested at the expense of rain forests.
    • Hundreds gathered for a demonstration on Tuesday to protest a police raid on an Atlanta gay bar last Thursday in which patrons and staff were forced to the floor and roughly frisked while officers made derogatory comments.

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