Experiments with truth: 12/11/09

The Editors December 11, 2009

Over 20,000 members of the South Africa Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) are planning on taking part in strike action against listed retailer Pick n Pay today, to protest alleged racial discrimination at the company.

In Norway, thousands of people took to the streets of Oslo Thursday as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

Police arrested 33 people who were protesting budget cuts and fee hikes at San Francisco State University to end a sit-in at a campus building.

Several thousand people in Indonesia, many of whom were students, marched through the capital of Jakarta on Wednesday against government corruption.

More than 400 Queensland Rail workers walked off the job in Rockhampton on Wednesday to protest against the State Government’s decision to publicly list the company.

On Tuesday, “Hungry for Justice at Vassar College,” began a hunger strike aimed at getting the school to reverse planned job cuts that have or will hit 13 support workers. Also, the Campus Solidarity Working Group held a sing-in at the main building for the same cause, that was followed by a vigil.

World No. 1 copper producer Codelco said an indefinite union worker blockade that began on Wednesday has halted mining activities at its massive Chuquicamata mine complex.

A Canadian citizen, who had staged a hunger strike to protest his planned deportation from Australia, has won a reprieve.

Tags: Australia, Civil rights, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Marches, Oceania and Pacific islands, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes, United States

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