Experiments with truth: 10/13/10

Experiments with truth: 10/13/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 10/13/10</h1> <ul> <li>In Cairo, around 50 workers and their families, along with labor activists and lawyers, congregated outside the headquarters of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) and the National Council for Women (NCW) on Sunday <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/sacked-workers-stage-protest-outside-rights-council-headquarters" target="_blank">to protest “arbitrary and punitive lay-offs”</a> and demand reinstatement.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Activists protested open pit mining in Costa Rica Saturday in front of Casa Presidencial. The protest against the Crucitas open-pit gold mine, a project that is on hold near the northern border with Nicaragua, will involve <a href="http://www.ticotimes.net/News/Daily-News/Protesters-Begin-Hunger-Strike-to-Stop-Crucitas-Gold-Mine_Sunday-October-10-2010" target="_blank">a hunger strike by activists</a>, including Costa Rican actress Rocío Carranza.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Two Spanish citizens who owned La Vaca farm have been on <a href="http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/10/11/en_eco_esp_spanish-farmers-on-h_11A4592411.shtml" target="_blank">a hunger strike for five days</a> at the gates of Spanish Consulate in Caracas, as they are waiting for the National Land Institute (INTI) to provide an answer on the compensation for their property, which was seized by the Venezuelan government.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Monday, food service workers at three hospitals in Allentown, Pennsylvania  held <a href="http://www.seiu.org/2010/10/cafeteria-workers-at-lehigh-valley-hospitals-strike-to-protest-intimidation-and-poverty-wages.php" target="_blank">a one-day strike against Sodexo</a> in response to what they see as the company&#8217;s ongoing campaign to prevent workers from organizing to get a better life.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Sunday, about 100 Ghazvin Naznakh textile workers in Iran held <a href="http://iranlaborreport.com/?p=1341" target="_blank">a rally across the presidential palace </a>at Pasteur street. The workers were demanding back wages that they are owed after the factory shut down last March.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Monday,<a href="http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/11/Indianapolis_Bakery_Hit_With_Gay_Protest/" target="_blank"> protesters from a gay rights group descended on an Indianapolis bakery</a> that is accused of denying an order of rainbow cupcakes meant to celebrate National Coming Out Day.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span>The Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Foundation, an Alevi organization, staged <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-224043-101-alevis-stage-sit-in-to-protest-religion-courses.html" target="_blank">a 24-hour sit-in protest in the Turkish capital on Saturday</a> in order to express their opposition to compulsory religion courses in Turkey’s schools. </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/320-foxconn-workers-arrested-584" target="_blank">police on Sunday locked up 320 Foxconn India workers</a> in Vellore prison in connection with the workers’ protest.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F13%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F13%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />