Striking workers from the Notimex news agency in Mexico City protested at its headquarters on day 304, condemning an exposure of workers to COVID-19 and the inability of the corporation to manage its fallout properly. The (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Notimex) Notimex Workers' Union cited irresponsibility on the part of the company for the reason that the strike began, and said it would not return until conditions were adequate.
Daily Archives: December 19, 2020
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Italian leftists protested in Saronno, Lombardy, demanding the halting of public health care cuts that the province's government has been committing to for the past decades. The crowd also condemned cuts to the pay of private-sector workers and exposure to COVID-19 that students face.
Students at the University of Panteion dropped a banner demanding the removal of new fences as well as the halting of the plan to bring back police into colleges & universities. The banner reads, "We left a university full of misery, don't make us come back to a university full of pigs - No tolerance for repression! Autonomous Initiative of Panteion"
Dozens of Austrian activists blocked several streets in downtown Innsbruck to draw attention to the inhumane conditions in the deportation camp Bürglkopf. Demonstrators also criticized the deportations of refugees to Afghanistan, Russia and Nigeria, which were recently carried out.
Hundreds of Yellow Vests gathered in what would be dubbed as 'Rainbow Bloc' at the Council of State in solidarity with protesters arrested during the March of Liberties demonstration against the global security law in the previous week. Protesters were blocked from leaving the area by CRS riot police before being allowed through to the l'Amiral de Coligny street. The police then kettled the crowd for 40 minutes, causing many complaints before slowly letting protesters disperse.
Dozens of antifascists returned to the streets of Sacramento to combat the weekly Stop the Steal rally attended by Proud Boys, marching as well in support of the Indian Farmers' Protest solidarity event going on at the same time. Several clashes broke out, with pepper spray being used and a shield wall being formed.
Lebanese university students marched in Beirut demanding the overturning of the increase of tuition and the dollarization of fees, moving through Hamra, as well as LAU and Haigazian universities. The military responded by tear-gassing the students, leading to widespread looting and fires across the Hamra neighborhood of Beirut.
30 protesters gathered at the ICE facility in southwest Portland, demonstrating against the treatment of undocumented migrants in the United States. Demonstrators placed trash and plants in the driveway, to annoy DHS agents, who promptly went outside and made 2 targeted arrests.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the 4D precinct in Washington D.C. to protest against the fact that the killer of Karon Hylton was reinstated, and was seen cruising around a gathering of teenagers. Hylton's mother was then arrested by the MPD and later released.
Antifascists marched against fascism in St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, in protest of weekly pro-Trump events occurring at the Capitol. The Proud Boys did not end up arriving, and the march against fascism ended without confrontations occurring, despite a weak standoff happening during the event.