Experiments with truth: 4/14/10

Experiments with truth: 4/14/10

Meg Pedersen

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 4/14/10</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nigeria.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Around 500 Nigerian youth marched in Lagos yesterday to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEQ1VKUp0-M9NPkiNxZh-HscMI1Q">protest widespread government corruption</a> and insecurity.  The marchers demanded a reduction in the amount of kidnappings and assassinations as well as electoral reform before next year’s elections.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Police <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gPZfpXvnjQi-Hw5_kB6CorHzUVOA">confronted protesters in Cairo at a protest</a> against police violence that had occurred at on-going pro-democracy demonstrations.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Somali radio stations <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/04/13/somalia.radio/">played animal noises yesterday</a> in response to a ban on music set by Islamic extremists.  The lighthearted appearance of the protest contrasts with the severe punishments radio hosts could expect if they broadcasted music.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9F2ADLO1.htm">Hospital workers rallied in New York City</a> on Tuesday after hearing an announcement that St. Vincent’s Hospital would close in the face of enormous debt.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>People in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/2010413151818733739.html">rallied earlier this week</a> after the government announced it would change the province’s name. While demonstrators protested peacefully, saying a name change would polarize the area, police killed eight.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Students in Long Island, New York <a href="http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=271288">marched and staged a sit-in</a> on Monday in response to drastic cuts to the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Sunday in Zhengzhou, China, <a href="http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-04/521394.html">zoo workers—and their animals—staged a sit-in</a> in a cycling field protesting the use of zoo land for sports facilities.  Zoo officials say they need more space to best care for the animals.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+4%2F14%2F10&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />