Experiments with truth: 9/20/10

Experiments with truth: 9/20/10

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 9/20/10</h1> <div> <div><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thousands+Thai+Shirts+mark+2006+coup/3546735/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/09/201092005423533754.html"></a></div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thousands+Thai+Shirts+mark+2006+coup/3546735/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thousands of Thai anti-government &#8220;Red Shirts&#8221; massed Sunday</a> to mark four years since a coup ousted their hero Thaksin Shinawatra and to commemorate those slain in a May crackdown on their protests.</li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gSyrJ0gyVJ2Aylv5McUjM7EOEOZQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tens of thousands demonstrated in Berlin Saturday</a> against the government&#8217;s proposal to extend the life of Germany&#8217;s nuclear power plants for another decade or more.</li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li>In Chicago, a group of parents and community members staged<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-whittier-sit-in-20100917,0,6501949.story" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> a sit-in</a> at a Pilsen elementary school field house Friday to protest plans to demolish the dilapidated structure.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <ul> <li>Employees at France&#8217;s Piper-Heidsieck champagne maker have called <a href="http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20100917-champagne-makers-go-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">an indefinite strike</a>, in protest at plans to cut a quarter of the house&#8217;s work force. Around 80 employees have been blocking the production site in Reims since midnight on Friday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Thursday, <a href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=366907&amp;CategoryId=14093" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thousands of Argentine teachers and students marched</a> from Congress to the presidential palace to mark the anniversary of student deaths in the 1970s and press demands for improved conditions in public schools.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In the Philippines, more than a hundred political prisoners in detention centers nationwide, joined by relatives and supporters, staged <a href="http://dateline.ph/?p=7600" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a protest fast Friday</a> to demand immediate freedom from an administration that has pledged respect for human rights.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In California, Palomar College students expressed frustration at reduced classes and services at <a href="http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/san-marcos/article_7f6ec9c7-4ebf-5ffb-bcda-8d2a6d055ce8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a sit-in Thursday</a> to protest state cuts to higher education.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hotel workers at the Toronto Hilton and the Hilton Toronto Airport staged <a href="http://www.unitehere.org/presscenter/release.php?ID=4149" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a one-day walkout on Friday</a> to protest cutbacks at the two hotels, owned by Westmont affiliates.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+9%2F20%2F10&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />