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Experiments with truth 6/25/10
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/06/experiments-with-truth-62510/
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- An estimated 797,000 workers demonstrated and unions staged nearly 200 marches in several French cities Thursday to protest President Sarkozy’s plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
- Around 50 cyclists in Brussels left their clothes behind Sunday during Cyclonudista, an annual naked protest meant to draw attention to the monopolization of public space by cars. The event was part of larger World Naked Bike Ride campaign.
- Postal workers picketed outside an Orlando post office on Monday to protest a proposed elimination of Saturday mail delivery to cut costs.
- In El Paso, Texas about 300 people marched in front of the Border Patrol offices on Tuesday to protest the June 7th killing of 14 year-old Sergio Adrían Hernández Güereca by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
- 1,500 members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union on Wednesday launched a week-long boycott of cargo to and from Israel to protest the raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people last month.
- About 200 unionized Phoenix employees marched to a meeting of the City Council on Wednesday to demand that officials protect local jobs and refuse to outsource more municipal services.
