Experiments with truth: 5/27/11

The Editors May 27, 2011

Tens of thousands of Iraqis dressed in the colors of the Iraqi flag marched in a military-style parade and chanted “Get out, occupier” in the Shiite slum of Sadr City on Thursday.

Eight Greenpeace activists climbed one of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants, the Fisk Generating Station, in the heart of Chicago on Tuesday morning to protest the immense damage the plant inflicts upon the local community.

About 2,000 ethnic Mongolians in northern China held a rare protest on Wednesday in front of a government building over the death of a shepherd, who was run over by a van driven by a Han Chinese, the country’s dominant ethnicity. The protests continued across the region on Thursday, as thousands more took to the streets.

About 1,000 people gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday to protest environmental law changes that would increase deforestation in the Amazon.

Over 150 activists from regions the world over gathered outside Chevron’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders in San Ramon, California on Wednesday to share the stories of the human and environmental degradation Chevron had unleashed in their communities.

Georgian police early Thursday violently dispersed an antigovernment rally in Tbilisi, crushing protesters’ attempts to prevent a military parade marking the country’s 20 years of independence since the breakup of the Soviet Union and calling for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s resignation.

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan’s 12,000 teachers are on strike this week to protest protracted contract talks with the government.

Thousands of Peru’s ethnic Aymara inhabitants blocked the main road linking southern Peru to Bolivia on Tuesday to protest the presence of a Canadian silver mining company.

Gaza’s fishermen have staged a sit-in demanding that the ban and naval blockade imposed on the sector be lifted.

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