100 protesters gathered in Portland to demonstrate against the ongoing war in Tigray, a breakaway province of Ethiopia. Organizers called on the UN to take action amid accusations of genocide and at least 50,000 refugees and thousands dead, with ethnic Tigrinya people persecuted across the east African country.
Activists dropped a banner at the New York Public Library in Midtown, demanding the abolition of ICE and immediate, permanent protection for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
Dozens of Afro-Colombians gathered at the Ministry of the Interior in Bogota to demand an end to the cartel occupation of the predominantly black community of Buenaventura, a vital port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
Around 400 protesters in Patras marched on International Women’s Day, calling for an end to patriarchal violence, oppression, and capitalism, as the #MeToo movement gripped Greece amid dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and rape against top officials in the government.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Rochester the day after a police officer pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl, demanding an investigation into the event and the immediate dismissal of the officer responsible. Demonstrators marched to the police station, shaking barricades, before leaving to avoid arrests and dispersing shortly after with a caravan of support on their tail.
