Experiments with truth: 9/4/09

The Editors September 4, 2009

Around 60 people organized by Environment Ohio dressed up as cavemen to protest the GOP’s prehistoric energy policies outside a closed-door panel discussion in Columbus held by Ohio’s Republican representatives.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China’s Han majority marched peacefully in the city center of Urumqi to protest a series of mysterious syringe attacks that may be linked to ethnic rioting that took place in July and killed nearly 200 people.

African-American communities across the Midwest mobilizing this Labor Day weekend to boycott Yum Brands and its subsidiary, the KFC Corporation for the way it handled a recent promotion aimed at African Americans, as well as firings of longtime minority workers.

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to open next week with a widening artist protest and possible boycott over its spotlight on Israel and its filmmakers. 50 directors, writers and activists who have signed an open letter to the festival titled “The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation.”

Protests took place Thursday outside of Geico’s Chevy Chase, Maryland headquarters in response to 12 union workers who lost their cleaning jobs there.

Hundreds of people converged on Miami-Dade County Hall yesterday in a last-ditch effort to protest sweeping budget cuts for social services programs run by community-based organizations.

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