Experiments with truth: 11/03/10

    • At least 600 people were arrested in India on Monday for opposing the construction of the world’s largest nuclear park in Jaitapur, and hundreds more voluntarily risk jail.
    • A group of around 20 farmers today staged a sit-in at the Ulster Bank in North Dublin in protest at the bank’s treatment of growers following the forced sale of a co-op in Balbriggan.
    • German artist Ralf Schmerberg has constructed an installation that looks like an igloo in Hamburg’s Goose Market, but is made of 322 abandoned fridges as a protest against global warming.

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