Experiments with truth: 11/19/10

The Editors November 19, 2010

Thirty-three women descended 500 m into the El Chiflon del Diablo mine – an unused carbon mine which now operates as a tourist attraction – to protest the elimination of a labor program of which they belonged and have threatened starting a hunger-strike.

One hundred pinwheels briefly blanketed the ground outside an administrative building on the campus of the University of North Carolina on Tuesday, as members of the Sierra Student Coalition protested the use of coal extracted through mountaintop removal.

While George Bush and Dick Cheney broke ground on the new presidential library at Southern Methodist University on Tuesday, about 100 people from around the country gathered a few blocks away to protest.

More than 100 angry Ryanair passengers staged a sit-in in an aircraft cabin for several hours on Wednesday after their flight was diverted to Belgium.

Dozens of gas drilling demonstrators gathered outside New York’s Broome County Legislature to oppose plans to lease mineral rights on public property.

Thousands have converged in Lisbon to protest the NATO summit. Several rallies are being held culminating in an antiwar march on Saturday.

Six illegal immigrants, including a Cal State San Bernardino student and a graduate of UC Riverside, staged a sit-in Wednesday at John McCain’s Washington office to get the Arizona senator’s commitment to a path-to-citizenship proposal he has supported in the past.

About 17,000 Greek students, teachers, workers and pensioners marched in the rain to the US embassy in Athens on Wednesday, beating drums and chanting slogans that opposed international efforts to solve Greece’s current debt crisis, such as “No IMF, no EU, let’s take our fate into our own hands”.

Activists of the transsexual, gay and lesbian community gathered along a street in San Salvador on Monday to demand the right to choose a name according to their gender.

Tags: Climate change, Experiments with Truth, Labor, LGBTQ rights, Marches, Occupations, Protests, Sit-ins, United States

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