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Experiments with truth: 7/13/11
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/07/experiments-with-truth-71311/
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- More than 100 environmental activists from across the country descended on Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s office Tuesday to demand that he rescind his support for the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the ExxonMobil megaload transportation project. Six of the activists are occupying the lobby of the governor’s office indefinitely.
- Thousands of Egyptians marched on the cabinet headquarters in central Cairo on Tuesday to demand the removal of the ruling military council. Meanwhile, in Alexandria, hundreds of demonstrators cordoned off the stock exchange building, posting a sign that reads, “Closed until all revolution demands are met!”
- Hundreds gathered outside the White House on Monday to protest the Colombia free trade agreement, which they say will kill jobs here, and threaten communities in Colombia.
- Thousands of Greek Cypriots have marched on the presidential palace in Nicosia to protest the deaths of 12 people in a blast at a navy base.
- Several dozen union workers gathered at a downtown state office building yesterday to protest Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s decision to block raises for 33,000 employees.
- Opponents of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s immigration law, marched to Chase Field Tuesday afternoon to picket outside Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game.
- Workers at state-owned Corporacion del Cobre de Chile, the world’s biggest copper producer, went on strike Monday to protest a modernization plan they see as a step toward privatization.
- South Korean female activist Kim Jin-Suk began the 188th day of a sit-in on Tuesday atop a giant crane to protest major layoffs at a South Korean shipyard.
- Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets Monday to protest cross-border shelling from Pakistan that has killed dozens of people in recent weeks.
- More than a hundred people gathered in Morris Cove—New Haven, Connecticut’s easternmost area—last weekend to protest the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to dump 250,000 cubic yards of toxic dredging waste in New Haven Harbor. They were joined by a flotilla of 43 kayaks and power boats, which processed around the dumping site.
