Experiments with truth: 4/5/10

Experiments with truth: 4/5/10

Meg Pedersen

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 4/5/10</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/calistudents.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Four hundred California high school students <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-242295-teachers-protest.html">walked out of class on Friday in response to announced teacher pay cuts</a> and are now facing consequences for the protest.</li> </ul> <ul></ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of Thai red-shirted activists <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/04/thailand-protest.html">began a protest on Saturday that froze downtown Bangkok</a> and will continue to demonstrate this week, although in a different location.  The pro-democracy protesters urge Prime Minister Vejjajiva to call new elections.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Worshipers at Dublin’s Pro Cathedral placed children’s shoes on the altar during Easter Mass on Sunday, <a href="http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/abuse-protest-at-easter-sunday-mass-452646.html">in protest of child abuse committed by Catholic clergy.</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Cuban journalist Guillermo Fariñas, who has been <a href="http://hill-talk.com/capitol-hill-cubans-farinas-health-worsens/">hunger striking and refusing hospitalization for weeks</a> in support of political prisoners denied medical attention in Cuban jails, was in declining health on Saturday.  Two of the prisoners <a href="http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2010/04/2-more-cuba-political-prisoners-start-hunger-strikes.html">also began hunger strikes.</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than one hundred Bulgarian workers <a href="http://bulgarianbusiness.org.uk/?p=1910">began a hunger strike</a> on Saturday in the town of Kostenets.  They protest their paper plant’s decision to fire employees without providing compensation.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Saturday in Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/04/monks-fast-sri-lanka-opposition-leader-release.html">commenced a hunger strike to protest the arrest</a> of an opposition presidential candidate.  The four men <a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10/Apr1270359270JV.php">refused to move</a> when confronted by police but were dispersed late Saturday night.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Munich on Sunday, hundreds of German activists <a href="http://english.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/20100404/101154.shtml">marched in protest of the war in Afghanistan</a>.  They call for immediate return of troops and an end to fighting, spurred by the recent deaths of German soldiers.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Three hundred Egyptians <a href="http://bikyamasr.com/?p=10951">demonstrated in front of the parliament in Cairo</a> on Saturday, urging an increase in minimum wage.  The current level, at approximately $7 per month, has not increased in 25 years.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Two dozen people <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/Women-march-topless-in-Portland-without-incident.html">walked through Portland, Maine without their shirts</a> on Friday, demonstrating against the double standard of nudity for men and women.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+4%2F5%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+4%2F5%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />