Experiments with truth: 3/23/11

The Editors March 23, 2011

On Tuesday, tens of thousands of anti-government protestors shouted slogans and raised banners during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa.

In Syria, thousands of protesters are marching in the southern city of Daraa today following the deaths of at least five protesters since Friday.

Several hundred teachers marched through Rabat on Monday for better pay a day after one of Morocco’s largest anti-government protests in recent decades against corruption and demanding government change.

Relatives of at least 80 political prisoners, who are on hunger strike in prison, held a demonstration in Cairo on Tuesday, accusing the government of holding them without charge.

In Senegal, 3,000 people participated in a sit-in at Dakar’s Place de l’Independance on Saturday to oppose corruption and the rule of President Abdoulaye Wade.

On Sunday, 350 activists rallied and marched and some 30 were arrested at the U.S. Marine Base at Quantico in Virginia demanding freedom for PVC Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking secret U.S. government documents to the WikiLeaks website.

Honduran teacher Ilse Ivana Velásquez Rodríguez died around noon on Friday in a Tegucigalpa hospital from injuries she received that day when riot police and the special Comando Cobra unit attacked a demonstration of thousands of teachers in front of the National Institute of Teachers’ Social Security (Inprema).

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Sunday to show support for victims in Japan and to renew their call to shut the Vernon plant down.

For the past two weeks, indigenous women from in Australia have been holding a blockade against the government’s self-imposed rule over their community.

Two members of an environmental group involved in a tree sit-in protest in Florida against a proposed biotech lab were arrested on Monday.

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