Experiments with truth: 12/2/09

The Editors December 2, 2009

More than 100 people gathered outside the Bank of America’s California Street location in San Francisco on Monday to protest the bank’s financing of oil, gas, coal and mountaintop removal mining. 20 were arrested for blocking the doors.

Protesters blockaded a biomass plant in Port Talbot, Wales on Sunday to protest against plans to develop two further plants in the area which would produce electricity from imported woodchips.

A group of roughly 30 climate activists, joined by NASA scientist and outspoken climate change expert James Hansen gathered in front of the headquarters of the Natural Resources Defense Council on Monday to protest the environmental advocacy group’s collaboration with big pollutors.

A coalition of groups led by DC activists staged a sit-in inside the John A. Wilson Building and a mock funeral procession outside the White House on World AIDS Day to call attention to the suffering of those afflicted with the disease. Two were arrested for squatting in front of mayor’s office.

Nearly 100 bicycle messengers rallied at John F. Kennedy Plaza in Philadelphia on Monday evening to protest what they called a growing “anti-cycling” mood in the city.

5,000 students and hundreds of union activists picketed the Latvian parliament’s passage of a budget filled with tax rises and spending cuts designed to win more international bailout funds.

Dozens of people wore face masks and waved placards as councillors visited the site of a proposed waste incinerator in North Yorkshire, England yesterday.

An 81-year-old activist fasting as “a prolonged act of mourning” of the destruction of the environment in West Virginia was arrested Tuesday at the state capitol for an outstanding warrant stemming from an incident back in October when he and a group of seniors marched to protest mountaintop mining.

Tags: Blockades, Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Marches, Protests, Sit-ins, United States

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