Experiments with truth: 9/28/09

The Editors September 28, 2009

Thousands of students, faculty members and other employees of the University of California system protested budget cuts Thursday across the state.

In New York City tomorrow, the Mobilization for Health Care for All is launching a campaign of “Patients Not Profit” sit-ins at insurance company offices 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 http://www.mobilizeforhealthcare.org.

About a thousand G-20 protesters, mostly anarchist youth, took to the streets Thursday in a non-sanctioned march starting in Pittsburgh’s Arsenal Park. On Friday, a large protest sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center’s Antiwar Committee drew several thousand peaceful protesters. As of Saturday, authorities had reported 181 arrests during the two-day period, not including 14 Greenpeace activists.

A labor dispute in the heart of San Francisco reached a new level Thursday night as hundreds of hotel workers took to the streets in protest with some engaging in civil disobedience.

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 an indefinite strike to protest against the airline management’s decision to cut incentive pay as a means of cutting costs.

Around 1,500 climate activists in white suits protested Saturday 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.

On Friday, hundreds of people from the town of Na’lin and international activists from Spain, Italy, Britain, Sweden and the United States participated in the weekly nonviolent march to the seperation wall erected by Israel. Eight people were injured by gas canisters shot directly into the crowds and three were arrested.

Tags: Civil disobedience, Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Marches, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes, United States

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