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Experiments with truth: 7/27/11
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/07/experiments-with-truth-72711/
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- Hundreds of supporters gathered from Salt Lake City and across the country, singing, chanting, and speaking out as they bore witness to the sentencing of climate activist Tim DeChristopher. Less than two hours after his two year sentence was announced, Salt Lake City police arrested two dozen people who locked themselves together with plastic ties and blocked traffic at the bustling intersection of 400 South and Main Street, including stopping a TRAX train.
- Spanish activists, known as “the Indignants,” have set off from Madrid on a long march to Brussels to protest what they see as governments bowing to financial markets and ignoring the needs of their own people in the economic crisis.
- Thousands of Greek taxi drivers marched in central Athens on Tuesday to protest government plans to open up their sector to competition.
- Police in Denmark detained six environmental activists on Tuesday protesting the felling of trees in a forest to make room for a research centre for wind turbines.
- Three leaders of a Starbucks Corp union in Chile have begun a hunger strike as their members push on with the first labor stoppage at company-operated Starbucks cafes.
- Young protesters seeking to oust Senegal’s aging president filled the streets outside a central courthouse in the capital, Dakar, on Tuesday, a day after the police arrested a rapper and prominent democracy activist.
- About a dozen activists—including Illinois Representative Luis V. Gutierrez—were arrested after they sat down on the White House sidewalk Tuesday, following a rally where demonstrators denounced the Obama administration for deporting more than one million immigrants in the last two years.
- About 200 protesters gathered Tuesday morning outside the Convention Center in Philadelphia to demand wheelchair-accessible taxicabs. The rally was held on the 21st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
- India’s biggest traders’ association held a series of demonstrations Tuesday against proposals to allow supermarket chains like Wal-Mart and Tesco into the country’s retail sector.
