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Experiments with truth: 4/19/10
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- Teachers, hospital workers, and other public sector employees in Quebec demonstrated outside a community meeting on Friday in support of their new contract demands.
- Thousands of workers and community members participated in a rally Sunday in Chennai, India led by former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa against power cuts and electricity mismanagement in the region.
- 500 women marched in Harare, Zimbabwe on Thursday protesting poor electricity supply and high costs. Many were arrested, and four remained in custody on Sunday night.
- AIDS activists staged sit-ins in Manipur, India on Saturday after the murder of an HIV-positive youth. Police broke up the actions; the activists said the denial of their protest applications was discrimination.
- First Nations members in Canada successfully blocked a railway for two hours on Friday in order to raise awareness about community concerns, including land claims and higher taxes.
- Families and friends of Jordanians imprisoned in Israeli jails gathered and staged a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in solidarity with prisoners. The protest took place the day after Raed Abu Hammad died in an Israeli jail, apparently after being denied medications.
- Refugees in a Sahrawi camp in Algeria staged a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in solidarity with political prisoners in Morocco who have been hunger-striking since March.
- 500 people marched through the Ohio State University campus against human trafficking yesterday. The march was sparked by proposed Ohio laws which will toughen trafficking charges.
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