Youth for Climate holds its first Belgian school strike in Brussels

Thousands marched in Brussels against the proposed EU-US TTIP deal and the EU-Canada CETA agreement. The coalition linked trade rules to labour protections, public services, health, farming and...

The collective shifted tactics by publicly opening a newly occupied building with music, talks, a shared meal and cultural programming. Solidarity groups joined. Organisers described occupations as...

After a temporary stay in a vacant care home was due to end, roughly 80 members of La Voix des Sans-Papiers occupied the empty Hotel Astrid. The collective sought residence papers and a place to stay,...

Civil-society organisations, migrant and refugee-support groups, anti-racist collectives and unions marched in Brussels against racism, discrimination, hate and inequality. Police estimated about...

More than 65,000 people marched in Brussels, with organisers estimating around 75,000 including cyclists. The Climate Coalition called on governments to align policy with the Paris Agreement and limit...

The weekly school strike grew from roughly 3,000 participants on 10 January and 12,500 a week later to around 35,000 on 24 January. Students used recurring weekday action to turn climate urgency...

Three days after the school strike, a broad intergenerational march in Brussels drew about 70,000 participants, then a record for climate mobilisation in Belgium. Youth-led organising and the...

Feminists called on women and people identifying as women to stop paid work, education, care work, housework and consumption, making visible labour often treated as private or unpaid. Thousands joined...

Collecti.e.f 8 maars called Belgium’s first national women’s strike, asking women and people who identify as women to withdraw from paid work, housework, care, consumption and education. The action...

Around 7,000 people joined the 21st and final scheduled Youth for Climate march before Belgium’s federal, regional and European elections. After weeks of Thursday strikes, the organisers used the...