Experiments with truth: 11/17/10

Experiments with truth: 11/17/10

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 11/17/10</h1> <ul> <li>A <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-16/hyundai-temporary-workers-strike-at-plant-in-ulsan-south-korea.html" target="_blank">sit-in protest by 600 workers</a> at a Hyundai factory in Ulsan, southeast of the Seoul, stopped the production of 922 vehicles worth 7.9 billion won ($7 million) on Monday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9JH7BE00.htm" target="_blank">Dutch postal workers staged a 24-hour strike yesterday</a> to protest plans by post and express mail company TNT NV to slash thousands of jobs.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About <a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Australian-asylum-seekers-go-on-hunger-strike/tabid/417/articleID/186504/Default.aspx" target="_blank">100 asylum seekers at a Sydney detention center have begun a hunger strike</a> to protest their detention and the apparent suicide of an Iraqi detainee.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Peshawar, three different labor unions of Pakistan Railway staged <a href="http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=171270" target="_blank">a protest on a railway track</a> and stopped the Awam Express which was bound to Karachi to protest a delay in the payment of their salaries.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Monday, <a href="http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/PROTEST-4-5-PAY-RISE/article-2898226-detail/article.html" target="_blank">hundreds of Bentley workers demonstrated</a> outside the firm&#8217;s headquarters in the UK in protest at a proposed 4.5 per cent pay rise. Shopfloor workers staged their 30-minute silent protest after objecting to the firm&#8217;s pay offer.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Students at the engineering department of the Science and Technology University in Tehran have <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9272:students-protest-at-several-universities-in-iran&amp;catid=127:iran-protests&amp;Itemid=127" target="_blank">refused to attend classes</a> since Saturday in protest to educational challenges.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Fiji, prisoners at the Naboro Maximum Remand Cell went on <a href="http://www.fijivillage.com/?mod=story&amp;id=161110dc77d6878a320b3d5378896e" target="_blank">hunger strike</a> Monday afternoon to protest alleged mistreatment by prison guards.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F17%2F10&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+11%2F17%2F10" style="border:0" alt="" />