Experiments with truth: 8/10/11

Experiments with truth: 8/10/11

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 8/10/11</h1> <p><a href="http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/08/photos-peaks-supporters-blockade.html"></a></p> <ul> <li>Ten people were arrested Monday after blocking the road to the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort near Flagstaff in an attempt to <a href="http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2011/0811/080911arrested.php">prevent construction on a new snowmaking system out of sewage</a> that they say will defile a mountain held sacred by all the region&#8217;s indigenous people.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Anti-fracking activists wearing gas masks and lab coats gathered in Cape Town city center on Tuesday to <a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2011/08/09/fracking-demonstrators-protest-in-cape-town">protest Shell&#8217;s plans for shale gas exploration </a>in South Africa&#8217;s Karoo region.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Tribal groups in the Philippines marked International Day of Indigenous Peoples on Tuesday with <a href="http://www.cathnewsphil.com/2011/08/09/protest-marches-on-indigenous-peoples-day/">protests calling for an end to human rights violations, land grabbing and environmental destruction</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>About 125 people gathered outside Speaker of the House John Boehner’s office in West Chester, Ohio on Tuesday to <a href="http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20110809/NEWS0108/110809004/">demand more jobs</a> for people in his district.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Some 1,000 people took part in a protest in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland last weekend over <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0808/1224302023820.html">plans by the Health Service Executive to replace the town ambulance service</a> with a first responder paramedic car.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Dozens of Togolese journalists marched in the capital, Lomé, on Saturday to <a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2011/08/togo-journalists-protest-purported-security-threat.php">call attention to reported allegations</a> that government security agents planned to retaliate against critical reporters.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Miners at Anglo American’s Moranbah North coal mine in Australia are <a href="http://www.cqnews.com.au/story/2011/08/10/moranbah-north-miners-have-begun-protesting-over-w/">protesting what they describe as a “dangerous practice”</a> of sharing camp rooms, which would require workers to drive home after 12-hour shifts.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20Experiments+with+truth%3A+8%2F10%2F11&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />