Experiments With Truth: 6/14/10

Experiments With Truth: 6/14/10

Shannon Hughes

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: Experiments With Truth: 6/14/101,000 New York City high school students walked out of classes on Friday to protest the proposed elimination of free student metro cards. A series of labor strikes pushing for higher wages and better conditions spread through China last week. Some 1,700 workers at a Honda Lock factory staged a march, while 2,000 workers at a Taiwanese computer parts plant walked off their jobs. Doctors in Massachusetts protested the use of squirrel monkeys in a NASA-funded experiment to test the effects of radiation in space on June 10. Thousands gathered to protest a youth's killing by police in Indian-controlled Kashmir. A rally was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on Thursday to protest Neo-Nazi attacks against a peaceful refugee's rights demonstration days earlier. Tens of thousands of Germans gathered in Berlin on Saturday to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel's austerity measures.