Experiments with truth: 10/25/10

The Editors October 25, 2010

Students and staff at the University of Michigan, as well as members from the local community, staged a silent walk-out last week when two IDF soldiers visited campus as part of an Israeli public relations effort. The protest was in memory and in solidarity with all of the silenced Palestinian children that were killed by the IDF during Israel’s most recent offensive on the Gaza Strip.

44 activists illegally marched onto a supposedly reclaimed mine site in West Virginia yesterday to plant trees. Some deployed a banner reading: “EPA We’re Doing Your Job – Over 500 Mountains Destroyed – Reclamation Jobs Now!” After negotiating with the police and planting all the trees, everyone was allowed to leave the site without repurcussions.

Around 200 activists gathered Sunday in the center of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg to protest a series of environmentally detrimental government projects, including a plan to reopen a cellulose factory on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia as well as a stalled project to build a highway through a forest near Moscow.

More than 200 people — led by environmental activist Erin Brockovich — marched to Shell’s oil refinery in Carson, CA on Saturday to protest the company’s refusal to take responsibility for the contamination of a tract in the Carousel neighborhood, where high levels of benzene and methane have been found in the ground.

Recent protests by Tibetan students in western China over plans to restrict the use of their language have spread to Beijing, where between 200 and 300 Tibetan students at the capital’s Central University for Nationalities held a peaceful demonstration on Friday afternoon.

Hundreds of workers and students descended on Downing Street on Thursday to noisily vent their anger against the sweeping cuts to welfare and public spending.

Hundreds of people on Saturday held rally in Mogadishu to protest the continuing deadly Islamist insurgency and call for peaceful resolution of the conflict in the war-torn country.

Hundreds of oil company workers in western Kazakhstan went on strike Thursday to demand the release of a detained union activist.

About 80,000 workers in Kenya’s tea farms went on strike last week over the use of tea plucking machines which they said could cost them their jobs.

Tags: China, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Marches, Protests, Russia, Strikes, United States

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