Angolan emigrants in London held a protest in Trafalgar Square in solidarity with activists in their home country fighting for employment opportunities and the right to local elections in 2021. Protesters chanted “Black Power!” and issued a condemnation to the MPLA government for persecuting demonstrators in Luanda and other cities.
McDonalds workers in Chicago went on strike to demand a $15 minimum wage, an increase in PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and a union for all. McDonalds and its franchises have been widely criticized for their union-busting practices, which sometimes are harsher than many other multinational corporations.
Thousands of people in Myanmar went out on their balconies and the streets to bang pots and pans and blare their car horns in opposition to the military coup that had occurred just 1 day before against one of the first civilian leaders in the country’s history.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Berlin against the creation of a pan-European border security agency called Frontex and the state of the Moria refugee/concentration camp in the island of Lesbos, Greece.
Around 100 protesters in Patras gathered at Agia Sofia Square and then participated in a neighborhood march against police repression, seen often after demonstrations were attacked in Athens, Nea Smyrni, and Thessaloniki in recent days.
