Experiments with truth: 8/8/11

Experiments with truth: 8/8/11

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>Experiments with truth: 8/8/11</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tel-Aviv-protest-Aug-7-ActiveStills4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11300" title="Tel-Aviv-protest-Aug-7-ActiveStills4" src="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tel-Aviv-protest-Aug-7-ActiveStills4.jpg" alt="" width="575" height="404" /></a></p> <ul> <li>More than 300,000 people took part in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/300-000-israelis-take-to-streets-in-third-rally-for-social-justice-1.377323" target="_blank">demonstrations across Israel</a> on Saturday night calling for &#8220;<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/07/c_131034533.htm" target="_blank">social justice</a>,&#8221; a blanket term covering demands for reforms in housing, taxes, healthcare, childcare, and education.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Forty-five thousand Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/07-3" target="_blank">went on strike Sunday</a> after negotiations fizzled over a new labor contract for more than a fifth of the company&#8217;s work force.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Tens of thousands of opponents of embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh held <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hanJppMAvRaE25nBMnlFGWlgPa9g?docId=CNG.c08d50927e48321e5e784e1f7b45cbbc.4b1" target="_blank">rallies across the country </a>following prayers on Friday.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of protestors largely drawn from Pakistan Justice Party staged <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192799.html" target="_blank">a sit-in protest in front of country&#8217;s Parliament </a>in Islamabad on Saturday evening to protest <a href="http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/07-Aug-2011/Imran-condemns-PPP-PMLN-for-mess-in-country" target="_blank">corruption, unemployment</a> and US drone strikes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Israeli forces targeted <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=411057" target="_blank">three separate rallies across the West Bank on Friday</a>, firing tear gas at participants and lightly injuring dozens.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In Jordan, <a href="http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=13186" target="_blank">dozens of activists staged a sit-in</a> following Ramadan evening prayers on Friday night in front of Salt city&#8217;s cultural center, protesting what they concidered government stalling in impementing nesessery political and economic reforms.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of demonstrators angry about the government’s austerity program briefly <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/thousands-protesting-austerity-measures-briefly-flood-back-into-madrids-sol-square/2011/08/06/gIQAbqg4xI_story.html" target="_blank">reoccupied a central Madrid plaza on Saturday </a>after police withdrew following widespread outrage at officers’ handling of a protest two days earlier.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The pro-LGBT activists from GetEqual Texas braved the Houston sun on Saturday to <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2011/08/more-getequal-protests-and-breaking-fast-at-rick-perrys-prayer-event-video.html" target="_blank">protest outside Reliant Stadium</a>, where Governor Rick Perry and thousands of  Evangelicals were holding an unabashedly political &#8220;day of prayer,&#8221; &#8220;The Response.&#8221;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Nepalese riot police arrested teachers affiliated with temporary teacher struggle committee during <a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/printArticle.asp?cu_no=2&amp;item_no=450933&amp;version=1&amp;template_id=44&amp;parent_id=24" target="_blank">a sit-in protest in front of the education ministry in Kathmandu on Thursday</a>.</li> </ul> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=Republished+Article&bots=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwagingnonviolence.org%2F2011%2F08%2Fexperiments-with-truth-8811%2F&_rcn=&_rck=Experiments+with+truth%3A+8%2F8%2F11" style="border:0" alt="" />