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Experiments with truth: 3/26/10
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/03/experiments-with-truth-32610/
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- A protest by hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a Tuesday night speech by American conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa.
- Hundreds of Argentine workers demanding a rise in salary occupied Buenos Aires province’s Department of Culture and Education building for six hours Tuesday. The protesters, all members of the Association of State Workers, said they would stage a strike on April 7.
- In Rockford, Illinois, hundreds of District 205 students walk out of class Wednesday to protest teacher layoffs. The protests are tied to the announcement that all “nontenured” teachers in the school district will be laid off.
- A bright red, 71-foot yacht will sail into Newcastle Harbour at midday tomorrow, arriving for Sunday’s People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port. The Amsterdam-registered Gaia’s Dream will moor at Carrington before joining a mass community protest on Sunday that aims to prevent the passage of coal ships in Newcastle Harbour.
- Two hundred union members occupying the basement of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel ended their 25-day sit-in on Saturday night, March 20 when a direct representative of the hotel’s owner directly intervened in the conflict for the first time ever in the more than 8-year history of the conflict.
- In the UK, civil servants in Cornwall and Devon have gone on strike for a third day in protest over redundancy pay packages. The action follows a two-day strike earlier in March which saw thousands of civil and public servants across the south west stay away from work. Courts, ports, job and tax centers are among venues being hit by the strike.
There also was a protest at the Coulter in Canada event in Calgary.
But there was no protest in London, Ontario.
This blog site was set up out here though – http://counteringcoulter.wordpress.com/