Experiments with truth: 7/25/11

Experiments with truth: 7/25/11

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 7/25/11</h1> <p><object width="570" height="348" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cfNqEFM_bMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed width="570" height="348" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cfNqEFM_bMA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" /></object></p> <ul> <li>Two months after they launched a movement against the economic crisis and soaring unemployment, thousands of Spain&#8217;s so-called &#8220;indignant&#8221; <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jqgrvEdGlHqplYFL4Zh6Ug_llZWg?docId=CNG.a1648361eb4770cb518e681d9dc71f55.2d1" target="_blank">protesters converged on Madrid again on Saturday</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Several Syrian towns observed calls for <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/activists-report-general-strike-in-syria-towns-1.374879" target="_blank">a general strike on Saturday</a>, a day after protests in which at least nine people were killed by security forces.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ecuador’s largest circulation daily newspaper has <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/29c6f03e-b49a-11e0-a21d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1T5zleoe3" target="_blank">run a blank front page </a>to  protest a $40m libel ruling imposed for running a column critical of President  Rafael Correa.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>More than 2,000 workers at the world’s largest private copper mine <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/more-than-2000-workers-on-strike-at-worlds-largest-private-copper-mine-in-chile/2011/07/23/gIQA3ipNVI_story.html" target="_blank">have gone on strike in Chile </a>to protest reductions in their production bonuses.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On Saturday, about twenty people rallied and marched in downtown Santa Cruz in solidarity with <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/24/18685903.php" target="_blank">prisoners at Pelican Bay who have ended their hunger strike </a>and declared it a success</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of labor activists staged <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/07/23/16/0302000000AEN20110723003200320F.HTML" target="_blank">a protest rally in downtown Seoul on Saturday</a>, demanding that strike-bound Hanjin Heavy Industries &amp; Construction Co. withdraw its decision to cut hundreds of jobs.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>On July 20 and 21, 300 workers from the Guizhou Dazhong Rubber Company in China held <a href="http://www.hrichina.org/content/5478" target="_blank">a sit-in to protest their bosses’ embezzlement of government resources and exploitation of workers’ interests</a>, and to ask the authorities to address the problems.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Political prisoners around the country<a href="http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&amp;articleid=709186" target="_blank"> started a nationwide hunger strike campaign last Thursday </a>to pressure President Benigno Aquino III to release political prisoners and declare a clear human rights policy.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Kenya, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201107220222.html" target="_blank">hundreds of truck drivers in Kisumu went on strike </a>last Wednesday to protest the increased carjacking incidents.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Pakistan, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBP) staged <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C07%5C22%5Cstory_22-7-2011_pg7_13" target="_blank">a sit-in demonstration in front of the Commissioner Office on Thursday </a>for the safe and immediate recovery of missing Baloch political activists.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=Republished+Article&bots=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwagingnonviolence.org%2F2011%2F07%2Fexperiments-with-truth-72511%2F&_rcn=&_rck=Experiments+with+truth%3A+7%2F25%2F11" style="border:0" alt="" />