Nurses in Middletown with Penna Nurses and Delaware Valley DSA went on strike to demand safer conditions, adequate staffing, and improved wages, after the beginning of a virulent increase of cases across the United States. Over 700 nurses joined the strike, that began across the area. The strike has no plan to end anytime before demands are met, and will continue through days or weeks if necessary.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Cali on the first day of a general strike against a tax hike on basic goods and services in Colombia. After police attacked the crowd, widespread looting and attacks on police stations and other government targets became rampant, resulting in the fiercest protest of the day.
Demonstrations continue to rock Lima and other cities across Peru following the impeachment of the president by Parliament. Thousands took to the […]
Thousands of protesters in Cali took to the streets for a 4th consecutive day as part of a general strike in Colombia, opposing new tax hikes on basic goods and services as well as the privatization of healthcare. Police responded with brutal repression, opening fire with live rounds and attacking peaceful demonstrations at multiple sites across the city.
Police arrested 9 indigenous Otomi occupiers of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, shortly after the government agreed to take down 3 properties for a community housing project. The Zapatista-aligned indigenous community expressed that the occupation would continue to occur until the dropping of all charges and release of all detained Otomi.
