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Experiments with truth: 7/25/11
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/07/experiments-with-truth-72511/
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- 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.
