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Experiments with truth: 10/7/09
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/10/experiments-with-truth-10709/
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Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in Rome's Piazza Del Popolo Saturday to defend press freedom, accusing Premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices, but the media owner magnate, Berlusconi dismissed the accusations as a "joke". (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
- 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.
- France Telecom workers launched a two-day strike and staged street protests on Tuesday to protest working practices at the firm following a wave of staff suicides.
- 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).
- Thousands of people in Turkey poured into the streets and held a protest rally, condemning Israel’s closure of the al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds.
- In Nigeria, Medical Workers’ Union commenced a nationwide strike to protest alleged unfair treatment by the federal government on Monday.
- 19 new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program have asked Fox to stop their ads from running or pledged to not to run ads on the show going forward, which brings the total number of companies boycotting Beck to 80.
- Zambian police on Friday detained nine protestors, including two opposition lawmakers, for blowing car hooters against the graft acquittal of ex-president Frederick Chiluba.
