Experiments with truth: 7/29/10

Experiments with truth: 7/29/10

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 7/29/10</h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/carnivoil.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Members of the youth climate group Consequence <a href="http://consequence09.org/2010/07/carnivoil-senate-plays-games-big-oil-has-fun/" target="_blank">hosted a Big Oil Carnival for Senate staffers</a> on the steps of Union Station in Washington DC on Tuesday. The event was complete with oil-themed games, Tony Hayward clowns, a stilt walking Uncle Sam and a message to the Senate: &#8220;Stop playing games with our clean energy future.&#8221;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Greenpeace U.K. <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/climate/greenpeace-activists-shut-down-bp-gas-station/blog/13004">shut down at least 30 BP stations</a> in London on Tuesday, fanning out to as many as 50 BP stations and posting banners that said, &#8220;Closed: Moving beyond petroleum.&#8221; They also pulled safety switches that cut off fuel supplies at the stations &#8212; and removed the switches so they couldn&#8217;t be turned back on again.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Four supporters of the federal DREAM Act stood before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in full cap and gowns at a Netroots Nation luncheon in Las Vegas last week to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-carrillo/immigrant-students-challe_b_661737.html" target="_blank">protest his lack of conviction on a bill that would allow a pathway to citizenship</a> for undocumented youth.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>An animal rights activist was <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/odd/news/20100726p2g00m0dm011000c.html" target="_blank">arrested in Jordan&#8217;s capital</a> on Sunday after covering herself in lettuce in a square along one of Amman&#8217;s trendiest streets. She held a placard reading &#8220;Let vegetarianism grow on you.&#8221;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Rights activists, including celebrities such as Bianca Jagger and actors from James Cameron’s film <em>Avatar</em>, gathered outside the venue of the annual general meeting of the mining company Vedanta in London on Wednesday to <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article538594.ece" target="_blank">protest its controversial plans to mine tribal land in the Orissa region of India.</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Eight people were arrested during a sit-in staged by the direct action group GetEqual in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as part of an effort to <a href="http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/07/28/GetEqual_Protest_at_Capitol_Rotunda/" target="_blank">push for a vote on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act</a>, which would outlaw workplace discrimination based sexual orientation and gender identity.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>15 people from a small town in North Queensland, Australia blocked a coal export terminal by camping on it for two nights to <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201007/s2966781.htm" target="_blank">protest pollution and noise from the coal trains</a> that pass through the town 15 times a day.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+7%2F29%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+7%2F29%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />