Protesters in Portland gathered to demonstrate against ICE for the 149th day of protests in the city since the death of George Floyd. They marched to the ICE facility, where DHS agents exited to confront the demonstrators, but appeared to have second thoughts and retreated back inside.
Barricades went up across Beirut in solidarity with the families of victims of the August explosion, demanding justice for the corrupt officials responsible for the mismanagement of the facility whose collapse caused 158 deaths and over 7000 injuries.
Hundreds of protesters marched in New York on the first day of Derek Chauvin’s trial, demanding justice for the murdered George Floyd who became the catalyst for the popular uprising that grappled the United States in the summer of 2020.
Thousands of protesters flooded the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, meeting at Al-Haboubi Square the day after nationalist and Islamist militias known as Sadrists burned the square and killed 5 people. Iranian militias and Sadrists later attacked the protesters, killing several via what appeared to be grenade launchers and assault rifles.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the cities of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, whose mandate is seen by many as illegal, as, by the public, he is seen as an imperialist-backed dictator who funds paramilitaries to keep the streets clean of opposition. Demonstrators burned American flags in condemnation of the country’s support of Moise, calling for democratic elections and a free press.
