CAGE is a network being set up to oppose the prison building program, the locking up of asylum seekers and the police state. It intends to link existing groups campaigning on these issues, link up with communities affected by the State clampdown and provide information for the action against the Prison State. Info for this article was nicked from a CAGE leaflet. Contact CAGE for local contacts and events. The company's decision to formally terminate the wage deal of 178 workers at the Howick coalmine projects a drop to the bare legal minimum of miners' annual income.
Military Police follow strikers, but no major confrontation reported.
Protesters blocked roads across the country, and in the capital, Lima, three thousand demonstrators burnt effigies of Mr Fujimori at a noisy rally outside the presidential palace. Eight workers are injured - two of them shot by the officers and held hostage.