Experiments with truth: 5/19/10

Experiments with truth: 5/19/10

Meg Pedersen

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 5/19/10</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/4616111358_45a434094a.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>More than a thousand people <a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/main_street_protests_wall_street_and_k_street">affiliated </a>with labor groups <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/news/98217-labor-groups-descend-on-k-street-to-protest-wall-street-lobby-">marched in Washington, DC </a>on Monday to protest Wall Street lobbyists.</li> </ul> <ul></ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&amp;storyid=37083">Coal miners and other union workers protested </a>in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday against the Massey Energy company&#8217;s environmental record and treatment of workers.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Residents of Madrid <a href="http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2010/05/madrid-demonstration-against-capitalism.html">demonstrated on Monday </a>in support of workers who are hurt by cyclical economic downturns.  They used the slogan, &#8220;Against the Europe of Capital, War, and Crisis.&#8221;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>People <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/17/2394833/jewish-led-brazilian-protest-targets-intolerance">planted 6,000 hands marked &#8220;1000&#8221; </a>on a Rio de Janeiro beach in Brazil this past weekend in commemoration of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.  The planter-protesters are asking Brazil&#8217;s president to discuss human rights when he meets with Iran&#8217;s president, a Holocaust denier, later this week.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Five students <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/18dream.html">wearing caps and gowns staged a sit-in protest </a>at Senator John McCain&#8217;s office in Tucson yesterday to protest the Arizona immigration bill and to ask specifically for a path to citizenship for young immigrants.  At least one of the protesters has <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20100518/NEWS06/100518053/1318/Ann-Arbor-illegal-immigrant-jailed-after-protest-at-Sen.-McCains-office">been jailed</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Last week, Mexicans in the town of Apaxco<a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/2486-mexicans-protest-toxic-waste-plant"> demonstrated against</a> a toxic waste processing plant built in their town a year ago.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Several groups have <a href="http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/general-strike-in-bolivia/">recently gone on strike</a> in Bolivia, calling for pay increases higher than President Evo Morales proposes.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+5%2F19%2F10&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />