Experiments with truth: 5/6/11

The Editors May 6, 2011

Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters today, killing at least six people as thousands joined demonstrations across the country calling for an end to President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Thousands of people gathered in the Yemen capital of Sana’a Wednesday to press their demand for the ouster of longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Commuters in Italy scrambled today to find the few buses and subway trains running during a one-day general strike that also affected air and rail travel, banks, public offices and schools.

More than 600 people led by a Mexican poet whose son was killed by suspected drug traffickers set off on a march Thursday from the resort city of Cuernavaca to Mexico City to protest the country’s unrelenting gang violence.

In Argentina, outsourced railway workers in the Belgrano Norte line blocked the ticket booths in the Retiro station for a couple of hours while demanding that they are hired as permanent staff.

More than 150 journalists from the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung downed tools on Wednesday between 8am and midnight, leaving a skeleton staff of senior editors to fill a smaller-than-usual paper with predominantly agency copy.

In Indonesia, hundreds of journalists rallied in front of Medan Police headquarters to protest the closure of TOPKOTA and an attack on Orbit, two local daily newspapers.

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 to protest potential budget cuts to public education.

In Lebanon, some 200 inmates at Roumieh Prison began a hunger strike Wednesday in protest against the failure to implement promised reforms.

Pro-immigrant activists and students blocked traffic on Monday in front of Chicago city hall in a noisy demonstration of civil disobedience to demand the end of deportations and the associated separation of families.

Hundreds of Ugandan lawyers gathered around court premises across the country Wednesday to protest the government’s crackdown on food and fuel price demonstrations that have engulfed the country over the past three weeks.

Tags: Blockades, Experiments with Truth, Incarceration, Labor, Marches, Protests, Strikes, United States

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