Experiments with truth: 3/2/10

Experiments with truth: 3/2/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 3/2/10</h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>In Evansville, Indiana, a crowd estimated at 5,000 strong poured onto the shoulder and parking lot of the Evansville plant, <a href="http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=12053728" target="_blank">protesting Whirlpool&#8217;s decision to shut down and ship jobs to Mexico</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Carrefour SA’s 116 stores in Belgium were closed Saturday because of <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-27/carrefour-s-belgian-stores-shut-for-strike-to-lose-19-million.html" target="_blank">a strike over planned job cuts</a>, said a company spokesman who put the resulting sales loss at the company-owned outlets at 14 million euros ($19 million).</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Scores of Jordanian politicians and trade union members staged <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152632.html" target="_blank">a sit-in at the Trade Unions Complex in Amman on Saturday</a> to denounce Israel&#8217;s addition of two West Bank holy sites to a list of Jewish heritage centers.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul led <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5576" target="_blank">over 1,000 Iraqi Catholics in a silent protest</a> on February 28 to demand that the government act to put a stop to violence against Christians there.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Nepal, the <a href="http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=CMPD+ends+48+hr+sit-in+for+demands&amp;NewsID=230133" target="_blank">48-hour sit-in protest of the Civil Movement for Democracy and Peace </a>(CMDP), which began from Thursday in front of the Constituent Assembly building, to urge political parties to draft the constitution within the given time frame, concluded on Saturday at 8 am.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><!-- E SF -->Several Cuban dissidents say they will<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540162.stm" target="_blank"> refuse food in protest at the death earlier this week of a jailed government opponent</a>. Orlando Zapata Tamayo died on Tuesday in a hospital in the capital Havana after a hunger strike of 85 days. His death triggered international protests and Cuban President Raul Castro issued an expression of regret.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Three Chinese death-row inmates who say they were tortured into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit have <a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/02/32048-hunger-strike-on-chinas-death-row.html" target="_blank">staged a hunger strike</a> to draw attention to their case.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of adherents of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) <a href="http://www.ww4report.com/node/8386" target="_blank">marched in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa Feb. 25 to protest the slaying of civil resistance leaders</a> under what they still consider to be the <em>&#8220;de facto</em> regime&#8221; of President Porfirio &#8220;Pepe&#8221; Lobo despite the change in government last month. The rally concluded in front of the National Congress building, where the march was blocked by a military cordon.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hundreds of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8542285.stm" target="_blank">Dutch activists have walked out of a Mass in protest</a> at a Roman Catholic policy of denying communion to practising homosexuals.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Thursday, <a href="http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=9591" target="_blank">protesting Guatemalan teachers in Melchor de Mencos blocked the Melchor Bridge</a> with their bodies to stop vehicular passage through the border between Guatemala and Belize. According to union president Zetina, who spoke on behalf of the teachers, they are demanding a 16% salary increase from their Government, in addition to proper renovation of school buildings.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thirty-eight Jamaican women &#8212; all of them asylum seekers, some of whom have lived in the UK for as long as 10 years &#8212; are on <a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hunger-strike--printed---p4" target="_blank">hunger strike in holding facilities in the United Kingdom</a>, in protest of their imminent deportation to Jamaica.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Tens of thousands of protesters calling themselves the Purple People took <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7044658.ece" target="_blank">to the streets of Rome on the weekend</a> in a sign of mounting opposition to the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The group, Il Popolo Viola, wore purple sweaters and scarves, Berlusconi masks or striped prison dress to protest against what they say is the undermining of Italian democracy by Mr Berlusconi in his battle with the country’s legal system.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+3%2F2%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+3%2F2%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />