Experiments with truth: 7/25/11

The Editors July 25, 2011

Two months after they launched a movement against the economic crisis and soaring unemployment, thousands of Spain’s so-called “indignant” protesters converged on Madrid again on Saturday.

Several Syrian towns observed calls for a general strike on Saturday, a day after protests in which at least nine people were killed by security forces.

Ecuador’s largest circulation daily newspaper has run a blank front page to protest a $40m libel ruling imposed for running a column critical of President Rafael Correa.

More than 2,000 workers at the world’s largest private copper mine have gone on strike in Chile to protest reductions in their production bonuses.

On Saturday, about twenty people rallied and marched in downtown Santa Cruz in solidarity with prisoners at Pelican Bay who have ended their hunger strike and declared it a success

Thousands of labor activists staged a protest rally in downtown Seoul on Saturday, demanding that strike-bound Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. withdraw its decision to cut hundreds of jobs.

On July 20 and 21, 300 workers from the Guizhou Dazhong Rubber Company in China held a sit-in to protest their bosses’ embezzlement of government resources and exploitation of workers’ interests, and to ask the authorities to address the problems.

Political prisoners around the country started a nationwide hunger strike campaign last Thursday to pressure President Benigno Aquino III to release political prisoners and declare a clear human rights policy.

In Kenya, hundreds of truck drivers in Kisumu went on strike last Wednesday to protest the increased carjacking incidents.

In Pakistan, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBP) staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Commissioner Office on Thursday for the safe and immediate recovery of missing Baloch political activists.

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