Experiments with truth: 4/12/10

Experiments with truth: 4/12/10

Written By: Meg Pedersen

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 4/12/10</h1><p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newz.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4306" src="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newz.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="230" srcset="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newz.jpg 460w, https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/newz-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px" /></a></p> <ul> <li>A New Zealand man <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&amp;objectid=10637849">locked himself to a silo</a> for a day this weekend in protest of factory farming.  Police cut him down from the silo at a pig farm while animal-rights supporters watched.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Togo’s capital on Saturday, people <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j6qtU4ZYxXk2rvqBs57CrhtjXG3A">gathered, as they have nearly every week since the March 4 election, to protest</a> the re-election of Faure Gnassingbe, <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/04/10/6000-demonstrators-protest-togo-election-results/">who took office fraudulently and whose father was a dictator.</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Hollywood on Sunday, protesters <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation/protest-demands-social-security-benefits-for-gays-90577924.html">marched for Social Security benefits</a> for gay couples.  700 people marched and were ultimately told that legislation would be introduced to equalize benefits.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>At least two hundred people <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/11/18644367.php">gathered at a San Francisco BART station on Saturday to engage in various forms of protest</a> against police violence, in response to the killing of Oscar Grant last year by a police officer. People chanted “no justice, no rush!” and peacefully confronted BART law enforcement.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thirty to fifty Sri Lankan and Afghan men <a href="http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/asylum-seekers-on-hunger-strike-over-kevin-rudds-tough-stance/story-e6frfku0-1225852508016?from=public_rss">seeking asylum began a hunger strike in their camp in Sydney yesterday</a>, in protest of Australia’s suspension on new asylum claims from those countries.  They seek to meet with officials to discuss their cases and the policy.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Workers and people with physical disabilities <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/parliament-sidewalk-protests-continue">continued protesting outside of Cairo’s parliament yesterday</a>.  The sit-ins, which have lasted between 4 and 58 days so far, are in response to the closing of factories and Egypt’s lack of provision of handicapped housing.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Dock workers in Iran <a href="http://www.astreetjournalist.com/2010/04/11/four-hundred-dock-workers-protest-in-a-rally-in-abadan/">protested after their company was privatized</a> and their jobs were jeopardized.  Several hundred people gathered in front of a central building and in prayer spot to protest the change.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About 25 people gathered in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday <a href="http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100411/NEWS/304110044">to protest racial profiling</a> done by immigration officials against Latinos.  They said they want their city to become a &#8220;sanctuary,&#8221; where people who work and pay taxes are in no danger of deportation.</li> </ul>