Experiments with truth: 7/2/10

Experiments with truth: 7/2/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 7/2/10</h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jun/30/bangladesh-protest?picture=364397791#/?picture=364397799&amp;index=1"></a></p> <ul> <li>At least <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhIRUDyC7cW5l1VKIHcvgOvDJIwQ" target="_blank">15,000 protesting garment factory workers blocked key roads in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Wednesday</a>, the latest in a string of protests over poor conditions and low wages, which now average $25 a month to sewing clothes for major Western brands such as Wal-Mart and H &amp; M.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Clashes erupted at the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan on Wednesday after <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/1/headlines" target="_blank">police forcibly prevented protesters from attending a legislative session on the State budget</a>. Officers used batons, physical force and pepper spray to block a large group that included many students seeking a voice in the Puerto Rican budget. Student organizers say over two dozen protesters were treated for injuries.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Transport chaos again hit Madrid Wednesday as <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzuwL6lfIIVc3zUx023auW2OKy5A" target="_blank">a strike by 7,500 metro workers protesting a wage cut of around 5 percent</a> decided by the right-wing regional government entered a third day with the system totally shut down.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A Salvadoran-born clergyman has set up a camping tent in a Chicago public park where he intends to continue the<a href="http://www.laprensasa.com/2.0/3/309/750579/America-in-English/Fasting-Chicago-pastor-camps-out-in-park-to-protest-deportations.html" target="_blank"> hunger strike he began 16 days ago to demand immigration reform</a>. The protest is part of a series of fasts, hunger strikes and acts of civil disobedience organized in Illinois by groups defending undocumented immigrants to pressure Congress to enact immigration reform.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10472065.stm" target="_blank">A protest shutdown has paralysed normal life for a fourth successive day</a> in Indian-administered Kashmir. The strike has been called in protest at the recent killing of unarmed civilians by police and paramilitary troops.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE66004I20100701" target="_blank">A strike at Tianjin Mitsumi Electric Co.</a>, a Japanese-owned electronics factory in north China, crippled production on Thursday, extending the industrial unrest that has put manufacturers at odds with increasingly assertive workers.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Monday, <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/Parents+protests+school+closure/3219055/story.html" target="_blank">four parents occupied the Dunster Fine Arts Elementary School</a> in British Columbia to protest its impending closure.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A large number of people in Karachi held <a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/19-rape-victim-leads-protest-against-brothers-murder-860-hh-08?pageDesign=mobile_detail" target="_blank">a sit-in on the main Abdullah Haroon Road on Sunday</a> in protest against the murder of a brother of a gang-rape victim.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Three former detainees from Guantanamo Bay who were transferred to Slovakia in January will continue their <a href="http://www.rozhlas.sk/inetportal/rsi/core.php?page=showSprava&amp;id=30548&amp;lang=2" target="_blank">hunger-strike in protest against the allegedly bad treatment they are receiving from Slovak authorities</a> at a detention facility in Medvedov.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+7%2F2%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+7%2F2%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />