Experiments with truth: 6/16/11

The Editors June 16, 2011

Tens of thousands of Greek workers from all age groups and professions marched on parliament in Athens yesterday to vent their anger at the country’s politicians and their austerity plans. Meanwhile unions held a nationwide general strike – Greece’s third this year. Despite violent clashes between police and rioters, the vast majority of the demonstrators remained peaceful.

A small group of women rallied outside the Saudi embassy in Washington DC on Wednesday to protest the kingdom’s ban on female drivers. The demonstrators wanted to express support for a planned nationwide protest in Saudi Arabia Friday.

Several thousand people gathered in downtown Chicago on Tuesday to protest bank bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy and demand jobs and funding for schools.

Czech transportation workers went on a one-day strike yesterday to protest government plans to overhaul public finances with measures including a value-added tax increase.

Up to 1,000 people turned out in the capital, Minsk, on Wednesday in a rare protest of economic hardship, defying a warning by President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko that he would “strike hard” against them.

Hudreds of Yemenis rallied in the capital, Sanaa, on Thursday to call on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

Activists dressed as Transportation Security Administration agents staged a mock TSA pat-down at the Capitol in Austin, Texas on Tuesday as part of an effort to bring a bill into the special session that would make it a misdemeanor for TSA agents to pat-down passengers at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

About 200 demonstrators gathered outside New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s offices on Monday to push for rent control. State Sen. Bill Perkins and a dozen others were arrested for blocking the entrance to the governor’s office.

On Tuesday night, a collection of labor officials, students and social service workers began a sleep-in outside City Hall, vowing to stay there, nonstop, “till Bloomberg’s budget is defeated!”

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