Experiments with truth: 10/8/10

Experiments with truth: 10/8/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 10/8/10</h1> <ul> <li>The group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War demonstrated in Washington, DC, Thursday to launch &#8220;<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/8/headlines#6" target="_blank">Operation Recovery</a>,&#8221; 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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=321838" target="_blank">Gaza City residents organized a sit-in on Thursday</a>, demonstrating collective anger over a home video of an Israeli soldier belly dancing beside a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman in the West Bank.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/wire-feeds/24-hour-world-news/article213121.ece" target="_blank">60 Greenpeace activists cordoned off part of the European Parliament headquarters yesterday</a> to protest the widespread use of nuclear technology.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of prisoners across Venezuela have <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gxqSdyfckBrzljItn_S40EShPvJA?docId=4762272" target="_blank">ended a hunger strike</a> after authorities agreed to some of their demands, a watchdog group said Thursday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.neworleans.com/news/local-news/490279.html" target="_blank">Food service workers at Tulane University walked off the job</a> at 6:00 AM yesterday morning to showcase their outrage over the unfair labor practices of their employer, the French outsourcing giant Sodexo. <a href="http://atlantapost.com/2010/10/07/morehouse-workers-strike/" target="_blank">Cafeteria workers at Morehouse College went on strike</a> Tuesday to protest Sodexo as well.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Trinidad and Tobago, nineteen labour unions have joined forces <a href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/19_unions_protest_plan_to_move_court-104548599.html" target="_blank">to protest against Government&#8217;s plan to move the San Fernando Industrial Court</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Guam, members of the Chamorru Nation held<a href="http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=8500:peaceful-protest-over-the-right-to-fish&amp;catid=45:guam-news&amp;Itemid=156" target="_blank"> a sit in protest at the legislature today on Wednesday</a> over the issue of indigenous fishing rights.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Portland, Oregon, roughly <a href="http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Marshall-Students-Walk-Out-to-Protest-Campus-Closure-104391509.html" target="_blank">100 students walked out of class Tuesday</a> at Marshall High School to protest the proposed closure of their school in the district&#8217;s latest re-design plan.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/world/middleeast/07briefs-Iran.html?_r=1" target="_blank">A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer is engaged in a hunger strike </a>since September 25, to protest her detention in solitary confinement on suspicion of spreading propaganda against the ruling system, her husband said Wednesday.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F8%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+10%2F8%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />