Experiments with truth: 5/6/11

Experiments with truth: 5/6/11

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 5/6/11</h1> <p></p> <ul> <li>Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters today, killing at least six people as <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/986784--thousands-of-syrians-take-to-streets-for-day-of-defiance" target="_blank">thousands joined demonstrations across the country</a> calling for an end to President Bashar Assad’s regime.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/5/headlines" target="_blank">Thousands of people gathered in the Yemen capital</a> of Sana’a Wednesday to press their demand for the ouster of longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Commuters in Italy scrambled today to find the few buses and subway trains running during <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gfepX7acs_jHFvszhzMhvehjvd_A?docId=14a265f3a83b41faaf13ecd28fb739c0" target="_blank">a one-day general strike</a> that also affected air and rail travel, banks, public offices and schools.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 600 people led by a Mexican poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlr7u0pIdesjvyhqo56iIKiwfyhw?docId=850354c2b9064dcdb2a13cc1f5899b8a" target="_blank">set off on a march Thursday from the resort city of Cuernavaca to Mexico City</a> to protest the country&#8217;s unrelenting gang violence.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Argentina, outsourced railway workers in the Belgrano Norte line <a href="http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/66266/outsourced-train-workers-blocked-ticket-booths-in-the-retiro-train-station" target="_blank">blocked the ticket booths</a> in the Retiro station for a couple of hours while demanding that they are hired as permanent staff.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 150 journalists from the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/05/suddeutsche-zeitung-newspaper-strike" target="_blank">downed tools on Wednesday</a> between 8am and midnight, leaving a skeleton staff of senior editors to fill a smaller-than-usual paper with predominantly agency copy.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Indonesia, <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/05/06/medan-reporters-rally-press-freedom.html" target="_blank">hundreds of journalists rallied</a> in front of Medan Police headquarters to protest the closure of TOPKOTA and an attack on Orbit, two local daily newspapers.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Tuesday, an estimated crowd of between 7,000 to 8,000 educators, parents, students and concerned citizens gathered at the Bicentennial Mall in downtown Raleigh <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/03/3599723/nearly-8000-attend-ncaes-one-voice.html" target="_blank">to protest potential budget cuts to public education</a>.</li> </ul> <div> <ul> <li>In Lebanon, <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/May-05/Roumieh-prisoners-start-hunger-strike-to-demand-reforms.ashx#axzz1LaLwPUoB" target="_blank">some 200 inmates at Roumieh Prison began a hunger strike</a> Wednesday in protest against the failure to implement promised reforms.</li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li>Pro-immigrant activists and students <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/05/02/pro-immigrant-demonstrators-block-traffic-chicago/" target="_blank">blocked traffic on Monday in front of Chicago city hall</a> in a noisy demonstration of civil disobedience to demand the end of deportations and the associated separation of families.</li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li>Hundreds of Ugandan lawyers gathered around court premises across the country Wednesday <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/Uganda-Lawyers-on-Three-Day-Strike-121269749.html" target="_blank">to protest the government&#8217;s crackdown on food and fuel price demonstrations</a> that have engulfed the country over the past three weeks.</li> </ul> </div> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+5%2F6%2F11&bots=1&_rcn=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+5%2F6%2F11" style="border:0" alt="" />