Protesters across New York dropped banners for a wide variety of reasons, including rent cancellation, a 2nd stimulus, and the freeing of all prisoners of ICE held in cages in the city’s detention facility. There was also a #NoNBKPipeline banner dropped from the top of a building, to compensate for the lack of activity that has been going on against it.
Protesters across Poland, from Krakow to Gdansk, took to the streets against an abortion ban by the PiS (Law and Justice Party). The government has pulled back on the ban for all fetuses except those with Down Syndrome, which has helped calm the clashes but not the protests.
Dozens of protesters returned to the streets of Hillah in the Babylon governorate, in defiance of the recent crackdown on protesters by the Iraqi government during the anti-corruption protests that began in October 2019; security forces have killed over 600 people via sheer brutality and the indiscriminate use of live ammunition for over a year as a form of crowd control.
Dozens of metro workers took to the streets to demand better pay and working conditions, with subways completely cramped with commuters despite Chile’s pandemic cases reaching a peak. Demonstrators blocked roads and took the sides of metros, demanding economic justice.
Demonstrators in Bangkok turned out in the tens of thousands against the monarchy and military dictatorship of Thailand, seen adopting Hong Kong […]
