Image: Remix of India Farmer Protests by Jaskaran (JK Photography), CC BY-SA 4.0 Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun South Koreans’ persistence has finally paid off: after weeks of protesting for the arrest of their suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol over his martial law and power grab, he has been apprehended and will face legal proceedings. This…
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Pirate Care, Salting, Knit-Ins Against Debt & Old Book Protests
Image: Remix from demonstration in Indonesia by Sigit Setiawan on Pixabay. Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The horror of the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles is vivid this week as 10,000 structures burned in the second-largest city in the United States. Climate activists have been campaigning hard to make the connection to the climate crisis…
Hunger Strike For Higher Wages, Skateboarders For Teen Mental Health & 1 Million South Koreans Protest
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun For over a year, we’ve been sharing stories about the LA hotel workers’ rolling strike organized by Unite Here Local 11. This brave campaign tackled over 100 hotels and coordinated low-income, often undocumented hotel workers to strike at one hotel after another. They’ve already succeeded at 68 hotels and are…