Experiments with truth: 9/28/09

Experiments with truth: 9/28/09

Written By: Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 9/28/09</h1><p style="text-align: center;"><object id="otvPlayer" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="400" height="268" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=7030684&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;site=" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed id="otvPlayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="268" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=7030684&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;site=" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li>Thousands of students, faculty members and other employees of the University of California system <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=7032131" target="_blank">protested budget cuts</a> Thursday across the state.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In New York City tomorrow, the Mobilization for Health Care for All is launching <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/26/18623421.php" target="_blank">a campaign of &#8220;Patients Not Profit&#8221; sit-ins at insurance company offices</a> to demand an end to a system that profits by denying people care and puts insurance company bureaucrats between doctors and patients. Sign up to sit in and join the battle today at <a href="http://www.mobilizeforhealthcare.org/">http://www.mobilizeforhealthcare.org</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About a thousand G-20 protesters, mostly anarchist youth, took to the streets Thursday in a non-sanctioned march starting in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Arsenal Park. On Friday, <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/print/4938/" target="_blank">a large protest sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center’s Antiwar Committee drew several thousand</a> peaceful protesters. As of Saturday, authorities had reported 181 arrests during the two-day period, not including 14 Greenpeace activists.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A labor dispute in the heart of San Francisco reached a new level Thursday night as <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/21110992/detail.html" target="_blank">hundreds of hotel workers took to the streets</a> in protest with some engaging in civil disobedience.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Around 400 executive pilots of Air India’s total pilot strength of 1,200 did not report for duty on Saturday, marking the start of <a href="http://avindia.blogspot.com/2009/09/400-air-india-executive-pilots-go-on.html" target="_blank">an indefinite strike to protest against the airline management&#8217;s decision to cut incentive pay</a> as a means of cutting costs.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Around <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/climate-activist-stage-copenhagen-protest-plan-to-shut-down-coal-firing-plant-179684/" target="_blank">1,500 climate activists in white suits protested Saturday</a> in Copenhagen against the use of fossil fuels and marched to a coal-firing plant, which they planned to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Friday, hundreds of people from the town of Na&#8217;lin and international activists from Spain, Italy, Britain, Sweden and the United States participated in <a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=7132" target="_blank">the weekly nonviolent march to the seperation wall</a> erected by Israel. Eight people were injured by gas canisters shot directly into the crowds and three were arrested.</li> </ul>