Saturday, May 8th, 2021, Melbourne-Australia Time Viernes 7 de mayo, 19:30PM en Colombia
Everyone with Colombia stop the repression against its people stop the criminalisation with the right to protest Duque out! (from Al Jazeera) For nearly a week, thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets across the country in some of the largest anti-government protests the country has seen in decades. What started as a plan for labour unions to strike has since ballooned into more widespread actions by indigenous groups, pensioners, and students, among others, against the right-wing government of President Ivan Duque. The protests “quickly expanded into something much wider, attracting not only students and workers but Colombians of all stripes, concerned about the poor health system, inadequate pensions, violence, inequality, corruption, and other issues,” said Arlene Tickner, a political scientist at Bogota’s Rosario University. “Social protest in Colombia is not as customary as in other Latin American countries and this has been like a slow cooker waiting to explode for some time,” she told Al Jazeera. people's protest continues state violence against Colombian people continues. This must stop, no more killings, respect human rights now! ONLINE VIA ZOOM LINK: http://www.shorturl.at/dBU13 Saturday, May 8th, Melbourne-Australia 10:30AM time Viernes 9 de Mayo en Colombia 7:30PM Everyone welcome lasnet.solidarity@gmail.com