Experiments with truth: 4/5/10

Meg Pedersen April 5, 2010

Four hundred California high school students walked out of class on Friday in response to announced teacher pay cuts and are now facing consequences for the protest.

Thousands of Thai red-shirted activists began a protest on Saturday that froze downtown Bangkok and will continue to demonstrate this week, although in a different location. The pro-democracy protesters urge Prime Minister Vejjajiva to call new elections.

Worshipers at Dublin’s Pro Cathedral placed children’s shoes on the altar during Easter Mass on Sunday, in protest of child abuse committed by Catholic clergy.

Cuban journalist Guillermo Fariñas, who has been hunger striking and refusing hospitalization for weeks in support of political prisoners denied medical attention in Cuban jails, was in declining health on Saturday. Two of the prisoners also began hunger strikes.

More than one hundred Bulgarian workers began a hunger strike on Saturday in the town of Kostenets. They protest their paper plant’s decision to fire employees without providing compensation.

On Saturday in Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks commenced a hunger strike to protest the arrest of an opposition presidential candidate. The four men refused to move when confronted by police but were dispersed late Saturday night.

In Munich on Sunday, hundreds of German activists marched in protest of the war in Afghanistan. They call for immediate return of troops and an end to fighting, spurred by the recent deaths of German soldiers.

Three hundred Egyptians demonstrated in front of the parliament in Cairo on Saturday, urging an increase in minimum wage. The current level, at approximately $7 per month, has not increased in 25 years.

Two dozen people walked through Portland, Maine without their shirts on Friday, demonstrating against the double standard of nudity for men and women.

Meg Pedersen

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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