Experiments with truth: 1/5/11

Experiments with truth: 1/5/11

Bryan Farrell

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 1/5/11</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/walkerprotest010311.jpg"></a></p> <ul> <li>Somewhere between 400 and 600 citizens gathered outside of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Madison on Monday to <a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=31757" target="_blank">remind him of his promise to create 250,000 jobs</a> and protest his rejection of a $810 million federal grant for high speed rail.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>At a rally in the Forest of Dean, UK, more than 3,000 people, backed by celebrities, bishops, leading conservationists and politicians, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/03/forest-of-dean-protesters-woodland" target="_blank">pledged to defend “the people’s” trees</a> from what they fear will be a corporate land grab.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Hundreds of people in central Afghanistan have held a demonstration to <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158640.html" target="_blank">protest home invasions and the desecration of Qurans </a>by US troops stationed in the war-ravaged country.</li> </ul> <div> <div> <ul> <li>More than 500 Lebanese and Palestinian activists marched in Tyre on Monday in <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&amp;categ_id=1&amp;article_id=123217#ixzz1ABLWgiRc " target="_blank">an unprecedented rally</a>&#8212;not against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, but against smoking.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <ul> <li>About 450 workers at the construction site for a cruise ship pier in Trelawny, Jamaica took strike action on Monday to <a href="http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=25410" target="_blank">protest an unfair tax deduction scheme</a> being used by the company. They also demanded an increase in their wages.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Around 30 people marched from the Hollywood transit centre in Portland, Oregon to the Southeast Portland police precinct on Monday to <a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/01/405074.shtml" target="_blank">protest the recent continued police-involved shootings and deaths</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li></li> </ul> </div> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+1%2F5%2F11&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+1%2F5%2F11" style="border:0" alt="" />