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 of protesters in Santiago gathered for a demonstration demanding the release of the political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising that began in 2019, some of which have been detained for over a year. Police responded with extreme repression, arriving in the dozens with tear gas and armored vehicles, attacking street medics, and making several brutal arrests.
Hundreds of protesters at the Gaston Berger University in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, clashed with police over insecurity and incompetence on campus after a stabbing and robbery of a student occurred without any police intervention.
Dozens of Seattle protesters gathered at the SPD East Precinct, having a snowball fight and later disrupting police activity by building a wall of snow stopping police cars from leaving the facility.
About 50 New Yorkers protested in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, demanding police defunding, rent cancellation, the abolition of ICE, and more, marching west with a heavy police presence following them. The crowd dispersed peacefully, and no arrests occurred.
