Experiments with truth: 12/17/09

Experiments with truth: 12/17/09

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 12/17/09</h1> <ul> <li><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091216-708314.html" target="_blank">Greece is bracing for a 24-hour strike today</a> by the Communist-backed PAME union even as the newly-elected Socialist government struggles to tackle the country&#8217;s ballooning budget deficit. The strike is expected to include local government workers, hospital doctors and port workers, while journalists and teachers are also staging separate strikes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span>Civil servants working at train stations across Turkey began <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-195766-101-civil-servants-strike-halts-trains-across-turkey.html" target="_blank">to strike on Wednesday to protest the firing of 16 civil servants</a> who were let go because they had participated in a warning strike in late November to protest a substandard wage increase of 2.5 percent.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Over 2,000 inmates began<a href="http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/12/15/en_pol_esp_more-than-2,000-inma_15A3195693.shtml" target="_blank"> a hunger strike at Tocuyito prison</a> in Carabobo state, central Venezuela, to demand improvements in their prison conditions.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span>Normal life in Muslim majority areas of the India-controlled Kashmir Tuesday remained affected due to <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/15/content_12652064.htm" target="_blank">a strike call in protest of the Central Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s (CBI) findings</a> that two women in Shopian town were not raped and murdered but died due to drowning in May.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Activists in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok have launched <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Activists_Hold_Hunger_Strike_In_Vladivostok/1905534.html" target="_blank">a hunger strike over the imprisonment of an organizer</a> of protests against increased taxes on imported cars.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In India, about 400,000 bank employees went <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/bank-staff-strike-work-to-protest-consolidation_431127.html" target="_blank">on strike on Wednesday to protest merging state-owned banks</a>, partially affecting cash transactions and clearing operations.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>78 employees from engineering office that Yahoo opened just last year in Echirolles, a suburb of Grenoble, France, have <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/French-Yahoo-Employees-Strike-to-Protest-Layoffs-jw-79446762.html" target="_blank">walked out to protest the office&#8217;s closure</a>.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+12%2F17%2F09&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+12%2F17%2F09" style="border:0" alt="" />