Experiments with truth: 10/15/09

Experiments with truth: 10/15/09

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 10/15/09</h1> <ul> <li>As the congressional debate continues, single-payer advocates are planning a national day of action today. The group Mobilization for Health Care for All says <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/14/headlines#2" target="_blank">more than 700 people have signed up to risk arrest</a> by holding sit-ins in front of insurance company offices nationwide. So far this month, over thirty people have been arrested at similar actions in cities including New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Labor unions are calling for <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gqtuqPqnxt6wxM5HVx9FQSAearNwD9BB40CO2" target="_blank">an island-wide strike and a march</a> near the capital today to protest government layoffs in Puerto Rico, where more than 20,000 public employees have been dismissed as the island struggles to pull out of a three-year recession.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Iran, <a href="http://hopoi.org/?p=699" target="_blank">1700 employees of Wagon Pars Company have gone on a hunger strike</a> to protest the company’s failure to pay their wages and pension.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In India, around 200 farmers from 20 villages around Halvad continued with<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Farmers-agitate-for-Narmada-water/articleshow/5124907.cms" target="_blank"> their indefinite hunger strike</a> on Wednesday to protest the ban on water for irrigation from Narmada dam.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Pakistan, <a href="http://www.asianews.com.pk/11417/quetta-female-students-block-highway-in-protest.html" target="_blank">Mastung Girls College students have blocked Quetta-Karachi highway</a> protesting against shortage of lecturers in the college and educational deterioration Wednesday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Several hundred UC Berkeley <a href="http://www.universitybusiness.com/newssummary.aspx?news=yes&amp;postid=20661" target="_blank">students took over the anthropology library for 24 hours</a> this weekend to protest UC-wide budget cuts, in particular Saturday closures of small campus libraries that students use for studying and research.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Dock workers at the main Greek port of Piraeus, who walked off the job on October 1, on Tuesday <a href="http://news.ph.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3637443">extended a strike</a> against the concession of container facilities to Chinese transport operator Cosco which has caused a massive goods holdup.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F15%2F09&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F15%2F09" style="border:0" alt="" />