Experiments with truth: 10/7/09

    • Students on 25 campuses across the United States will protest eight long years of war against and occupation of the people of Afghanistan today.  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a nation-wide student organization committed to activism for peace, justice and equality, are organizing the protest.
    • A total of 38 Honduran farmers arrested by the putschist regime began an indefinite hunger strike, demanding their release and the return of institutionality. The farmers were arrested Wednesday when police and soldiers ousted 55 people from the National Agrarian Institute (INA).

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