Experiments with truth: 4/26/10

    April 26, 2010
    • On Saturday in Berlin, tens of thousands of people joined hands to protest against nuclear energy.  The human chain, organized by a group of environmental, political, youth, religious, and union activists, stretched 75 miles and urged Germany to close its nuclear plants.
    • In Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday, thousands of people protested a new deal extending Russian military presence into the former Soviet Republic.
    • A hundred residents of a community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia gathered on Saturday to protest plans for a drainage system that would impact homes without compensation from the government.
    • More than 150 people protested at military recruiting sites in Minnesota on Friday.  Activists unfurled banners that read “Jobs not war” and marched across campuses during “Zero Recruitment Day.”
    • Several hundred people gathered in New York on Friday to protest a limit on the number of vendors who can sell art in city parks.
    • A group of Armenians demonstrated near the White House this weekend, asking President Obama to recognize the Armenian genocide and stop Turkish military force against Kurds.
    • Artists gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday to creatively demonstrate against the indiscriminate destruction of green areas in their city.

    Meg Pedersen graduated from Barnard College and is currently based in Washington, DC. She has lived in Denmark and Chile and focuses her work on writing and feminist advocacy.

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