Experiments with truth: 11/08/10

Experiments with truth: 11/08/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 11/08/10</h1> <p></p> <ul> <li>Tens of thousands of union members, social activists and students gathered in Seoul Sunday <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08korea.html" target="_blank">to protest the Group of 20 economic summit meeting</a> that begins on Thursday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iBnBl4JtHqbAp4Mk_nGLQuQQsGzA?docId=CNG.b7b0e11361e7847889195c6db3707f9e.1441" target="_blank">Tens of thousands of government employees marched in Portugal&#8217;s capital</a> on Saturday to protest an austerity budget that would slash their salaries.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of protesters in France and Germany have <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/8/headlines#13" target="_blank">attempted to block a train carrying nuclear wast</a>e. Some protesters chained themselves to the train tracks while others drove trucks on to the tracks. Hundreds of protesters have been detained.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Sunday, Cafe de Coral, Hong Kong&#8217;s biggest fast-food chain, said it had ditched plans to scrap paid lunch breaks for its employees after <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1597164.php/Hong-Kong-fast-food-chain-backs-down-on-pay-plan-after-boycott" target="_blank">a public and Facebook campaign was mounted boycotting its restaurants</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hundreds of gay and lesbians protested the Church&#8217;s position on gay marriage by <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/11/07/16013851.html" target="_blank">kissing publicly as the pope passed</a> by on his way to the  Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Sunday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Oakland, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/06/national/main7029257.shtml" target="_blank">police arrested 152 protesters</a> who streamed through the streets Friday after a white ex-transit officer received the minimum two-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform two years ago.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A group of 400 survivors of the Bhopal disaster have been <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/8/hundreds_of_survivors_of_bhopal_disaster" target="_blank">protesting Obama’s visit to India</a>. In addition, the cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Widows-of-farmers-protest-Obama-visit/articleshow/6882105.cms" target="_blank">candlelight protests</a> ahead of US President Barack Obama&#8217;s India visit on Friday.</li> </ul> <div> <ul> <li>Inhabitants of Jaftelk village, Jericho district, in the Jordan Valley organized <a href="http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&amp;id=212085" target="_blank">a protest sit-in on Saturday</a> with the participation of foreign solidarity activists against Israeli settlement activity.</li> </ul> </div> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F08%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F08%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />