Fight For 15 strikes have begun across Florida with 2 main objectives; the first being to rally support for workers and unions to pressure the Floridian government to improve union and striking laws. The 2nd, and namely more important one, is to turn out the vote to pass Amendment 2 to make the minimum wage $15.
Hundreds gathered in front of the house of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a steadily growing crowd demanding that he not be placed as Secretary of Transportation. Demonstrators made noise the entire day, then listening to organizers’ speeches and dispersing.
October Protest Wrapup
The friends, family, and allies of Bastián Campos, a political prisoner sentenced on the 25th of November 2019, gathered at the Plaza Colón in Antofagasta to demand his release along with the mothers of several other political prisoners in the city.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the cathedral in Santiago at the Plaza de Armas, demanding amnesty for all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising. Many family members of those caged for months in isolation for rising up against the state were also present and gave speeches to protesters and the press.
