Experiments with truth: 12/3/10

The Editors December 3, 2010

The Indigenous Environmental Network and allies protested the Tar Sands gigaproject scheme in front of the Moon Palace in Cancun, where the UN climate negotiations are taking place.

Frustrated Hatian presidential candidates led a march through Port-au-Prince capital Thursday to demand officials annul an election they say was tainted by fraud.

About 150 students and faculty at the University of Texas in Austin protested possible budget cuts to liberal arts programs.

Nine protesters, some in bagel costumes, were arrested Wednesday morning for blocking traffic outside the mayor’s World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast at the Brooklyn Public Library. The demonstrators, from the nonprofit group Housing Works, were protesting devastating cuts that the mayor proposes each year to city services for low-income people with AIDS.

The occupation of a lecture hall at the University of Nottingham, which began on the November 30th following a second on-campus protest against the cuts to the Education budget and the subsequent rise in tuition fees, reached its third day yesterday.

About 150 employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District wearing red and white union T-shirts gathered outside the school district headquarters on Tuesday to protest the layoffs of about 1,000 non-teaching staffers.

Some 40 unemployed demonstrators gathered at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting ceremony on Tuesday to protest the end of unemployment benefits, which will affect millions of Americans.

Tags: Climate change, Corruption, Experiments with Truth, Marches, Occupations, Protests, United States

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