Experiments with truth: 3/22/10

Experiments with truth: 3/22/10

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 3/22/10</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/dcwarprotest.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Thousands marched through the nation&#8217;s capital on Saturday to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001020_pf.html" target="_blank">urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan</a>. At least eight people, including activist Cindy Sheehan, were arrested by U.S. Park Police at the end of the march, after laying coffins at a fence outside the White House.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Activists with Rainforest Action Network erected two 20-foot-tall, purple tripod structures in front of the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s headquarters in Washington to <a href="http://cms.ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=4861" target="_blank">pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water Act and halt mountaintop removal coal mining</a>. They stayed on the tripods for <a href="http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/03/19/two-days-locked-down-to-the-epa-campaigning-to-end-mountaintop-removal/" target="_blank">32 hours</a> before deciding to leave.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>130 people took part in the two-hour Melbourne World Naked Bike Ride in Australia yesterday to <a href="http://leader-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/naked-bike-riders-take-to-melbourne-cbd/" target="_blank">protest oil dependency and highlight bike safety</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 1,000 union members, workers and activists gathered in downtown Philadelphia on Friday to <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.org/working/entry/5723/weekly_round-up_workers_challenge_banks_airlines_mandatory_overtime/" target="_blank">challenge the nation’s six largest banks</a> to pay for their bailouts by contributing to job creation and doing their part to restore the economy.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 100 workers gathered outside the Department of Water Management in Chicago on Friday to <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.org/working/entry/5723/weekly_round-up_workers_challenge_banks_airlines_mandatory_overtime/" target="_blank">protest forced furloughs</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Around 500 protesters marched through the town of Bideford in south-west England to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/21/bideford-protest-antisocial-behaviour" target="_blank">&#8220;reclaim&#8221; it from rising street violence</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span id="storyText" class="headlines">More than 60 Harlem middle and high school students walked out of class on Friday, while another 50 </span><span id="storyText" class="headlines">chose to stage a sit-in to <a href="http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/88706072.html" target="_blank">protest the planned </a></span><span id="storyText" class="headlines"><a href="http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/88706072.html" target="_blank">dismissal of about 150 teachers and staff members</a>.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 7,000 protesters made their way through Togo&#8217;s capital on Saturday to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001190.html" target="_blank">protest presidential election results</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>British Airways employees began a three-day strike on Saturday to <a href="http://english.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/20100321/101007.shtml" target="_blank">protest a pay freeze and proposed changes to working conditions</a>.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+3%2F22%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+3%2F22%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />