Black Lives Matter protest in Brussels becomes a landmark anti-racist mobilisation

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...

A European call for a housing-rights mobilisation on 28 March 2020 could not proceed as planned because of the pandemic. Belgian groups moved much of the action online and kept the campaign alive...

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, undocumented people held a short action at the health and migration minister’s office. They described losing income and being unable to pay rent or food, while...

Following repeated acts of protest and vandalism during the Black Lives Matter mobilisation, Antwerp and Ekeren authorities removed the Leopold II statue from Ekeren’s public square and placed it in...

Around 300 people gathered at Place du Luxembourg in Brussels to demand regularisation, denounce police violence and oppose closed detention centres. The Coordination des Sans-Papiers argued that...

The Coordination des Sans-Papiers organised a night vigil at Place Albertine, calling for regularisation and social and economic rights. Organisers estimated about 400 participants, while police...

The Belgian Housing Action Day network joined the Santé en lutte demonstration in Brussels, forming a housing bloc alongside health and care workers. Organisers connected the pandemic’s health...

People without papers reoccupied the church and demanded regularisation, healthcare and the right to work. Many had lived in Belgium for years, while lockdown made informal work and shelter less...