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Experiments with truth: 8/10/11
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/08/experiments-with-truth-81011/
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- Ten people were arrested Monday after blocking the road to the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort near Flagstaff in an attempt to prevent construction on a new snowmaking system out of sewage that they say will defile a mountain held sacred by all the region’s indigenous people.
- Anti-fracking activists wearing gas masks and lab coats gathered in Cape Town city center on Tuesday to protest Shell’s plans for shale gas exploration in South Africa’s Karoo region.
- Tribal groups in the Philippines marked International Day of Indigenous Peoples on Tuesday with protests calling for an end to human rights violations, land grabbing and environmental destruction.
- About 125 people gathered outside Speaker of the House John Boehner’s office in West Chester, Ohio on Tuesday to demand more jobs for people in his district.
- Some 1,000 people took part in a protest in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland last weekend over plans by the Health Service Executive to replace the town ambulance service with a first responder paramedic car.
- Dozens of Togolese journalists marched in the capital, Lomé, on Saturday to call attention to reported allegations that government security agents planned to retaliate against critical reporters.
- Miners at Anglo American’s Moranbah North coal mine in Australia are protesting what they describe as a “dangerous practice” of sharing camp rooms, which would require workers to drive home after 12-hour shifts.
