The first Belgian Housing Action Day shifts online during the COVID-19 lockdown

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...

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...

About 10,000 people gathered at the Brussels Palace of Justice after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Organised by Belgian Youth Against Racism and supported by Black activists and...

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...