Experiments with truth: 7/25/11

    • 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.


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    While media and universities try to delegitimize student encampments, there’s still a way they can shift public opinion to support an end to the genocide in Gaza.

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    NYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway with less policing

    May 7, 2024

    A grassroots group of MTA passengers and community leaders is organizing riders to support new community investments and push back against regressive public safety narratives.

    • Analysis

    Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68

    May 1, 2024

    An organizer of the 1968 Columbia University protests on why the message against war, then and now, is the same.