Experiments with truth: 8/30/10

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<li>Century City&#8217;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 href="http://www.seiu.org/2010/08/13-commuity-activists-arrested-to-protest-firing-of-janitors-at-one-of-las-glitziest-buildings.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a march and protest in Los Angeles</a>. Thirteen people were arrested for blocking an intersection in an act of civil disobedience.</li>
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<li>Some 10,000 people gathered outside historic Dunbar High School in  Washington, D.C. on Saturday for <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2010/08/30/reclaiming-the-dream" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the &#8220;Reclaim the Dream&#8221; march</a> commemorating the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington  for Jobs and Freedom,&#8221; where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous &#8220;I  have a Dream Speech.&#8221;</li>
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<li>On Sunday, an estimated <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/29/hong-kong-manila-protest?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">80,000 Hong Kongers marched</a> 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.</li>
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<li>Teachers on Thursday staged <a href="http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=364466&amp;CategoryId=14092" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a 24-hour strike</a> and paralyzed Puerto Rican  public education to protest what they say is a general deterioration of  the school system.</li>
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<li>On Thursday, two protesters associated with Climate Ground Zero  <a href="http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/08/26/oh-hells-yeah-anti-mtr-activists-take-action-against-failed-regulatory-agency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocked the  entrance</a> 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.</li>
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<li>A protest of <a href="http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/radical-women-shut-down-shell-in-nigeria-mend-leader-assassinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nigerian women shut down a Shell plant</a> last Wednesday, just one week after a group of Ugborodo women blockaded a Chevron natural gas pipeline.</li>
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<li>Oil workers calling for compensation for recently fired employees maintained <a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN279738120100827" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a blockade at a storage plant in southern Argentina</a> on Friday.</li>
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