Experiments with truth: 8/30/10

The Editors August 30, 2010

Century City’s business as usual came to a standstill Thursday afternoon as the janitors who lost their jobs cleaning JPMorgan Chase-owned Century Plaza towers were joined by 500 janitors, community activists, and union supporters at a march and protest in Los Angeles. Thirteen people were arrested for blocking an intersection in an act of civil disobedience.

Some 10,000 people gathered outside historic Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for the “Reclaim the Dream” march commemorating the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a Dream Speech.”

On Sunday, an estimated 80,000 Hong Kongers marched in honor of eight people killed in a bus hijacking in Manila, attacking the Philippine government for botching the rescue operation and demanding justice for the dead.

Teachers on Thursday staged a 24-hour strike and paralyzed Puerto Rican public education to protest what they say is a general deterioration of the school system.

On Thursday, two protesters associated with Climate Ground Zero blocked the entrance to the headquarters of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to bring attention to what they believe is the DEP’s failure to enforce the Clean Water Act by permitting mountaintop removal mining.

A protest of Nigerian women shut down a Shell plant last Wednesday, just one week after a group of Ugborodo women blockaded a Chevron natural gas pipeline.

Oil workers calling for compensation for recently fired employees maintained a blockade at a storage plant in southern Argentina on Friday.

Tags: Blockades, China, Labor, Marches, Martin Luther King, Jr., Protests, United States

D. Killion says:

August 30, 2010 at 11:14 pm

– 500 janitors…
– 10,000 (that seems quite generous) Sharptonites…
– 80,000 mourners in Hong Kong…
– Teacher’s Union in PR…
– *2* protesters at ground zero…
– Some Ugandan women…
– Oil workers in Argentina…

Yet not ONE mention of the peaceful crowd of a couple hundred thousand in the National Mall…

Probably should change the website to a more appropriate name like WagingNonviolenceWithCausesWeAgreeWith.com

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