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Experiments with truth: 10/05/09
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/10/experiments-with-truth-100509/
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Greenpeace activists hung a huge banner from the St Nicholas Church Tower in Copenhagen on Friday that read “Obama: Right city, wrong date”. It was meant as a reminder to Obama, who was in town to lobby for Chicago as host of the 2016 Olympic Games, that he needs to return in December for the UN Climate Summit.
- According to organizers, 300,000 people took part in a rally against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his control over the media in Rome’s central Piazza del Popolo.
- Health care workers gathered outside New York’s capitol building to protest an unprecedented order from state health officials that every health care worker get seasonal and H1N1 flu shots or face the possibility of being fired.
- Greenpeace activists wearing masks of Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and other world leaders blocked the conveyer belt of a coal mine in Svalbard, Norway on Friday. The action was meant to draw attention to the UN Climate Summit.
- Thousands of people demonstrated in eastern France on Saturday to demand the closure of the country’s oldest nuclear power plant amid a huge police presence.
- 16 Greenpeace activists were arrested yesterday after scaling three smoke stacks at a Shell operation in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta to protest its conversion of oil sands into fuel.
- Thirty-eight farmers imprisoned by the military-supported interim Honduran regime began a hunger strike Saturday demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
- Over 700 Greenpeace activists took part in a naked protest in a French vineyard yesterday to alert people to the fact that climate change is effecting local vineyards.
