HONG KONG: Although the risings are mainly led by migrant domestic workers each year, this year more groups participated – local Hong Kong residents, other HK women’ s groups, church groups, LGBTQI + groups, students.
ITALY: Danced“ Break The Chain” everywhere – more than 52 cities and counting.
USA: Campesinas farmworker women – rising in several locations in the USA.
POLAND: Danced OBR and held a rising inside their parliament – this is powerful for them politically – especially in Poland where they want to change the law on the definition of rape. OBR Poland has brought OBR to over 100 communities this year and in the past years, to educate people on this law they want changed.
AUSTRIA: Danced“ Break The Chain” outside their parliament.
MYANMAR: Rising in the jungles, in camps for international displaced peoples( IDPs) – even if it happens covertly and sometimes on the run – they keep rising.
UNITED KINGDOM: Birmingham held a rising led by people with disabilities on wheelchairs – on the streets, while in London – the rising was led by migrant domestic workers.
INDONESIA: The rising of the Malaya indigenous people( mostly farmers / peasants of rubber or palm oil fields) was fully supported by tribal chiefs. Lively discussions across generations of the Orang Melayu( Malaya tribe) with two different cultures took place – the culture of achieving food sovereignty, and a culture of how they must revive indigenous practices of the past to face surviving the climate crisis of today.