Experiments with truth: 7/16/10

The Editors July 16, 2010

On Tuesday, a group of volunteers toting vuvuzelas gathered outside of BP’s International Headquarters in London and sounded their barbaric yelps in protest of the way the company is handling the oil spill in the Gulf.

A strike has broke out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan’s Honda Motor on Monday, with about 90 of the plant’s 200 workers stopping work to demand a nearly 60 percent pay increase.

Croatian police arrested more than a hundred people on Thursday, including actors, writers and city officials, after they staged a peaceful rally to prevent private construction works in the heart of the capital.

PETA, Last Chance for Animals, and other activists were in downtown Los Angeles at the Staples Center Wednesday night to protest the opening of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. They called for a boycott of the circus based on the disturbing photos that had been turned over to PETA by an industry whistleblower.

Workers at Nokia’s Chennai factory in south India went on strike on Tuesday, demanding higher wages. The factory is a key hub for the manufacture of mobile handsets and employs 8,000 workers.

Flights to and from Greece were grounded for four hours on Thursday and state hospitals operated with skeleton staff as air traffic controllers and doctors joined public sector workers in another nationwide strike against labour reforms and austerity measures.

A recently established student movement pushing for reform of Taiwan’s assembly law, which restricts people’s right to demonstrate, announced their plan today to expand their ongoing sit-in protest at Taipei’s Liberty Square that began last Friday.

Thousands of protesters poured into the center of the main city of Indian Kashmir on Thursday after authorities lifted restrictions for the first time in five days. The Muslim-majority region has been wracked by demonstrations since June 11 when security forces were accused of killing a 17-year-old. Since then, another 14 protesters and bystanders have been killed.

Tags: Animal rights, China, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes

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