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Experiments with truth: 11/15/10
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/11/experiments-with-truth-111510/
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- Around 200 people protested in the center of Moscow on Sunday to demand a halt to attacks on Russian journalists and activists after a string of assaults on reporters.
- Several hundred protesters gathered near the Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility in northern Germany on Sunday to demonstrate against plans to extend the period the site can be used as a storage site.
- Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday against Morocco’s recent crackdown in Western Sahara.
- About 500 university students from throughout Louisiana descended on the capitol in Baton Rouge on November 10 to demonstrate against cuts in state spending on education.
- Parents, educators and civil rights advocates held a demonstration on the steps of Manhattan’s Tweed Courthouse on Sunday against Cathie Black becoming the mayor’s replacement for schools chancellor, saying that the publishing executive lacks proper experience in the educational field.
- A coalition of local faith and community groups in District Heights, Maryland gathered near a gun dealer on Saturday to pray for him and call for him to abide by a 10-point code of conduct for responsible firearms sales. Police have traced more than 2,500 guns used in crimes in the past 18 years back to this one dealer.
- Work at a coal loading rail depot in Scotland was disrupted by environmental campaigners last week after they attached themselves to the conveyor belt and the front gate to protest open cast mining.
- Some 2,000 people in the Agusan del Sur province of the Philippines rallied on Saturday for an end to illegal mining and illegal cutting of trees.
