Experiments with truth: 4/9/10

Meg Pedersen April 9, 2010

In Chicago, 350 public school students walked out of class on Thursday and demonstrated in front of the Board of Education’s headquarters, City Hall and the Thompson Center to protest budget cuts.

Families camped outside the Hawaii governor’s office in protest Wednesday night. The group Save our Schools is upset that Governor Lingle has not been present at discussions about days off from school; Hawaii has the shortest school year of any state.

About 150 protesters took over the platform of BART’s Embarcadero Station in San Francisco just as the afternoon commute set in Thursday, calling for the firing of a transit agency police officer who was present during the New Year’s Day 2009 shooting of the unarmed African American passenger Oscar Grant.

Mass rallies took place across India yesterday, led by the Communist Party in protest of high prices on essential items and Congress’s failure to remedy the problem.

Also in India on Thursday, the province of Kerala nearly shut down in commemoration and protest of a massacre committed by Maoist rebels earlier this week. The closures of schools, businesses, and the government were in protest of the ruling party’s failure to prevent the violence.

Shouting “Save our jobs” and “Save our kids,” more than 500 residents, youth advocates and union members protested deep cuts to parks and recreation and the loss of city workers’ jobs at a meeting with Baltimore’s top officials on Wednesday evening.

As Indian minister Kamal Nath spoke inside a Manhattan building on Thursday, a group of NYC-based Sikhs gathered outside in protest. They say the minister facilitated mobs that killed 3,000 people, mostly Sikhs, in 1984.

On Thursday morning, employees at a children’s clothing factory in Warwickshire, England staged a sit-in and demanded an explanation after discovering their month’s wages had not been posted.

Last Saturday, up to 3,000 Dominicans marched in Cotuí to protest against the Pueblo Viejo gold mine, which is operated by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp.

Workers at Carlsberg breweries in and around Copenhagen, Denmark are striking this week after a reduction of their free daily bottles of beer from three to one. Workers are upset because they were not consulted about the change.

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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