Experiments with truth: 2/16/11

Experiments with truth: 2/16/11

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 2/16/11</h1> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="570" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q9Bw45P2zGs" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q9Bw45P2zGs" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li>Police fired tear gas and violently dispersed <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112167051422444.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hundreds of protesters in Libya</a> this morning who gathered in front of police headquarters of in Benghazi demanding an end to Gaddafi&#8217;s 41-year rule.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011214925802473.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anti-government protests</a> in Shia villages around Manama, the Bahraini capital, left several people injured and one person reported dead on Monday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Iran, <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/16/headlines#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">clashes have erupted today</a> at the funeral of a protester killed on Monday, when <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/15/headlines#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tens of thousands of people took to the streets</a> in the largest Iranian protests since the aftermath of the nation’s disputed 2009 election.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Yemen,<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/16/headlines#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> protests against longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh are escalating</a> as they continue for a sixth consecutive day. Earlier today government supporters attacked pro-democracy demonstrators as they set off on a march from a university in the capital of Sanaa.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Labor unions across Egypt have taken the country&#8217;s revolution as a cue to stop work and demand better pay and conditions. More than 12,000 workers at state-owned Misr Spinning and Weaving <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/us-egypt-labour-idUSTRE71F2V320110216" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">went on strike</a> on Wednesday. In the coastal city of Damietta, about 6,000 spinning and weaving workers were also striking. And thousands of workers and employees from the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut have <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/assiut-workers-protest-living-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">organized sit-ins</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Tuesday, an estimated <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/16/headlines#14" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10,000 people gathered at the capital building in Madison</a>, Wisconsin to protest against a bill that would eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for public workers and slash their pay and benefits.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Eighteen people were put in handcuffs and detained by sheriff&#8217;s deputies in San Francisco Monday afternoon after <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&amp;id=7957431" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a sit-in at the county clerk&#8217;s office</a>. The act of civil disobedience was carried out by gay and lesbian couples to protest same-sex marriage bans in California and other states.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Tuesday, the train schedule was badly disrupted while 13 locomotives were stranded at the Pakistan Railways Mughalpura workshops as workers <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=31464&amp;Cat=5&amp;dt=2/16/2011" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">went on strike and laid on the railroad tracks</a> in protest against non-payment of salaries.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span>Public transport came to a halt in Athens on Tuesday once again due to <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/16/c_13733634.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a 24-hour strike</a> over the controversial new law which envisages a partial privatization of the debt-ridden Greek Railways, the restructure of the sector and transfers of employees to other public companies to save costs.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li>&#8220;We pay taxes, Why don&#8217;t you?&#8221; <a href="http://www.courant.com/business/hc-bank-of-america-valentine-20110214,0,4010421.story" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> protesters chanted as they carried signs and Valentine&#8217;s Day balloons</a> on the sidewalk in front of the Bank of America building in downtown Hartford Monday in a demonstration designed to embarrass Connecticut&#8217;s largest bank into greater cooperation with delinquent homeowners.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>A <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-15/train-strike-adds-to-debt-laden-portugal-s-woes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">strike by Portuguese train engineers </a>on Tuesday caused severe disruption for commuters in the latest protest against government spending cuts designed to ease a debt crisis.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>One of Equatorial Guinea’s most prominent authors, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, entered his fifth day on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/15/headlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a hunger strike </a>yesterday to protest the policies of Equatorial Guinean dictator Teodoro Obiang.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+2%2F16%2F11&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />