Experiments with truth: 11/15/10

Experiments with truth: 11/15/10

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 11/15/10</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/russianjournalistprotest.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Around 200 people protested in the center of Moscow on Sunday to <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hwLqWjLx-rxIP4qTf__BehlsGrVw?docId=CNG.abcbb510a5c046dbf43a74a8c92b43c3.311" target="_blank">demand a halt to attacks on Russian journalists</a> and activists after a string of assaults on reporters.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Several hundred protesters gathered near the Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility in northern Germany on Sunday to <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6228946,00.html" target="_blank">demonstrate against plans to extend the period the site can be used as a storage site</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/15/moroccan_forces_raid_protest_camp_in" target="_blank">against Morocco’s recent crackdown in Western Sahara</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About 500 university students from throughout Louisiana descended on the capitol in Baton Rouge on November 10 to <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/loui-n13.shtml" target="_blank">demonstrate against cuts in state spending on education</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Parents, educators and civil rights advocates held a demonstration on the steps of Manhattan&#8217;s Tweed Courthouse on Sunday <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/128917/activists-protest-cathie-black-becoming-next-schools-chancellor/" target="_blank">against Cathie Black becoming the mayor&#8217;s replacement for schools chancellor</a>, saying that the publishing executive lacks proper experience in the educational field.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A coalition of local faith and community groups in District Heights, Maryland <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/13/AR2010111303780.html" target="_blank">gathered near a gun dealer on Saturday</a> 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.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>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<a href="http://www.steelguru.com/raw_material_news/Protesters_disrupt_Ravenstruther_coal_rail_terminal/175086.html" target="_blank"> protest open cast mining</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Some 2,000 people in the Agusan del Sur province of the Philippines <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20101114-303193/Thousands-rally-vs-illegal-mining-logging-in-Agusan-Sur" target="_blank">rallied on Saturday for an end to illegal mining and illegal cutting of trees</a>.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F15%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F15%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />