Experiments with truth: 7/1/11

The Editors July 1, 2011

In Britain, more than 750,000 workers refused to work Thursday in the largest public sector strike in the country in a generation. Some 6,000 schools were forced to close and 5,000 were partially closed. The workers were protesting against sweeping changes to state-sponsored pension plans.

Some 200,000 protesters took to the streets of Santiago, Chile, Thursday calling for more government support for the education system.

Thousands converged in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday to deliver signatures aimed at repealing the state’s new collective bargaining law.

Belarusian police violently dispersed a peaceful rally Wednesday by thousands of people protesting the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko and the country’s worst financial crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago.

After more than 300 women began a sex strike last Friday, a group of men have begun a hunger strike in a growing protest to pressure authorities to maintain a road into and out of a Colombian village.

Over 500 bank employees Tuesday demonstrated outside the Reserve Bank of India to protest the government’s policy to privatize public sector banks and to amend banking laws, among other issues.

Chinese police beat up and detained ethnic Mongolian herders who protested over the weekend against pollution caused by a lead mine.

As tensions continue to rise between labor and Southern California’s three leading grocery chains, hundreds of workers rallied outside of the local headquarters of Albertsons, Vons and Ralphs on Tuesday to protest possible cuts to their healthcare benefits.

Tags: China, Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Strikes, United States

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