Experiments with truth: 10/8/10

The Editors October 8, 2010

The group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War demonstrated in Washington, DC, Thursday to launch “Operation Recovery,” the first veteran-led campaign to stop the deployment of soldiers traumatized by multiple tours of duty. The veterans gathered outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center before marching to Capitol Hill.

Gaza City residents organized a sit-in on Thursday, demonstrating collective anger over a home video of an Israeli soldier belly dancing beside a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman in the West Bank.

About 60 Greenpeace activists cordoned off part of the European Parliament headquarters yesterday to protest the widespread use of nuclear technology.

Thousands of prisoners across Venezuela have ended a hunger strike after authorities agreed to some of their demands, a watchdog group said Thursday.

Food service workers at Tulane University walked off the job at 6:00 AM yesterday morning to showcase their outrage over the unfair labor practices of their employer, the French outsourcing giant Sodexo. Cafeteria workers at Morehouse College went on strike Tuesday to protest Sodexo as well.

In Trinidad and Tobago, nineteen labour unions have joined forces to protest against Government’s plan to move the San Fernando Industrial Court.

In Guam, members of the Chamorru Nation held a sit in protest at the legislature today on Wednesday over the issue of indigenous fishing rights.

In Portland, Oregon, roughly 100 students walked out of class Tuesday at Marshall High School to protest the proposed closure of their school in the district’s latest re-design plan.

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer is engaged in a hunger strike since September 25, to protest her detention in solitary confinement on suspicion of spreading propaganda against the ruling system, her husband said Wednesday.

Tags: Blockades, Experiments with Truth, Incarceration, Labor, Marches, Sit-ins, Strikes, United States, War

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