Experiments with truth: 10/05/09

Experiments with truth: 10/05/09

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 10/05/09</h1> <figure id="attachment_2169" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2169" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/obama-shows-up-in-copenhagen021009"><img class="size-full wp-image-2169" title="acitivists-make-sure-president" src="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/acitivists-make-sure-president.jpg" alt="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 the 2016 Olympic Games host, that he needs to return in December for the UN Climate Summit." width="430" height="642" srcset="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/acitivists-make-sure-president.jpg 430w, https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/acitivists-make-sure-president-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2169" class="wp-caption-text">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.</figcaption></figure> <ul> <li>According to organizers, 300,000 people took part in a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/04/2704195.htm" target="_blank">rally against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his control over the media</a> in Rome&#8217;s central Piazza del Popolo.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Health care workers gathered outside New York&#8217;s capitol building to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/04/eveningnews/main5362636.shtml" target="_blank">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</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Greenpeace activists wearing masks of Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and other world leaders <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/coal-arctic-svalbard021009" target="_blank">blocked the conveyer belt of a coal mine</a> in Svalbard, Norway on Friday. The action was meant to draw attention to the UN Climate Summit.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of people demonstrated in eastern France on Saturday to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHcDQbBMjocpLaMmpLTCTX9S5wsA" target="_blank">demand the closure of the country&#8217;s oldest nuclear power plant</a> amid a huge police presence.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thirty-eight farmers imprisoned by the military-supported interim Honduran regime began a hunger strike Saturday <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5izd2pecqwu1x-mt3C5eJiUf-VP5A" target="_blank">demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Manuel Zelaya</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Over 700 Greenpeace activists took part in a naked protest in a French vineyard yesterday to <a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/offbeat/article.aspx?id=379374" target="_blank">alert people to the fact that climate change is effecting local vineyards</a>.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=Republished+Article&bots=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwagingnonviolence.org%2F2009%2F10%2Fexperiments-with-truth-100509%2F&_rcn=&_rck=Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F05%2F09" style="border:0" alt="" />