Experiments with truth: 11/10/09

The Editors November 10, 2009

Thousands of Japanese gathered in sweltering heat on the southern island of Okinawa on Sunday to demand that a US Marine base be moved out of the region, days ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall yesterday, a group of masked activists in the West Bank used a lorry to pull down segments of Israel’s cement seperation wall before Israeli security forces confronted them with tear gas grenades.

Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators rallied across Ireland on Friday to protest government plans for tough austerity measures.

More than 30,000 workers of bakery shops across the Kashmir Valley went on indefinite strike on Saturday morning, protesting against the authorities’ cruel polices against them.

Hundreds of teachers from private high schools in this western China city called a strike this week to protest low salaries and deplorable working conditions.

Scores of environmental activists from five continents have begun a fast to put pressure on countries to agree a strong deal at climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.

In Philadelphia, the strike by SEPTA workers that had paralyzed much of the region since last week ended yesterday morning with a signing of an agreement by SEPTA officials and leaders of Transport Workers Union Local 234.

Kurdish political prisoners in Syria started an open-ended hunger strike on October 30, against the harsh conditions and unfair judgments of the Supreme State Security Court.

Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.

Tags: Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Incarceration, Labor, Protests, Strikes, United States

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