Experiments with truth: 10/12/11

The Editors October 12, 2011

Chicago police arrested 21 people protesting against economic inequality on Tuesday at two rallies. The arrests came a day after thousands of people including teachers, religious leaders and union workers marched in downtown Chicago to voice mounting anger over joblessness and economic woes in protests that snarled rush-hour traffic.

In New York City, some 500 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement marched through the neighborhoods of some of the city’s wealthiest residents on Tuesday.

Police in Boston raided the “Occupy Boston” encampment early yesterday morning, arresting about 100 peaceful protesters in the latest crackdown on protests linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Approximately 100 protestors, affiliated with October2011 Stop the Machine, and some from the Occupy D.C. movement, showed up at the Hart Senate Office Building yesterday morning for a “flash mob” protest, chanting phrases like “End War Now” and “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” and “We Are the 99 Percent.” Six were arrested.

New strikes hit Greece on Tuesday as the government finalised talks with its EU-IMF creditors on additional spending cuts to secure payment of a bankruptcy-saving loan.

Chanting “This has to change,” some 200 Haitians marked World Day for Decent Work on Friday with a march to the National Industrial Parks Company (Sonapi), where most of Port-au-Prince’s low-wage assembly plants are located.

Strikes disrupted some French trains and schools on Tuesday as unions across France protested government austerity measures.

Workers for Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) state company “Railway RS” have been on strike for the last two days and are asking management to fulfill their requirements for improving the collective agreement.

Palestinian officials said Tuesday that around 2,000 prisoners held by Israel have joined a hunger strike demanding better conditions behind bars.

Algerian police on Sunday arrested roughly 25 unemployed people as they prepared to rally against joblessness near the presidential compound.

Tags: Art, Civil disobedience, Economic policy, Incarceration, Labor, Marches, Occupations, Performance, Strikes, United States

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