Experiments with truth: 12/20/10

    • Several thousand workers organized by Spain’s main trade unions braved cold weather in several cities around the country on Saturday to protest the government’s austerity measures and its plans to extend retirement age.
    • About five hundred people took to the streets of New York City on Sunday as part of the intensifying global response to the decision by administrators of the Smithsonian Institute to censor a video installation by queer icon David Wojnarowicz.

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