Thread by @InvisiblesMuros

Today's thread for national strikes in Bogotà #PARONacional21o

I'm at Parque Nacional where student and union groups are gathering for a march downtown. This is just one of four rally points. The Minga, meanwhile are organizing their own march. This is shaping up to be big

Drummers warming up the crowd. People pouring in. Duque choosing to ignore the Minga, many of whom travelled for as much as ten days seems to have energized protests here

Holy moly. Without a doubt biggest concentrated protest I've seen since last November, and this is just one part...

We re marching south to Plaza Bolivar to meet 3 other manefestations

I found Brennan! I rode a chiva w him from Ibagué. He runs a theatre group in Cauca that performs interactive theatre in an attempt to provide catharsis to people who have grown up in decades of violence

Antifa in the house ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏿

ESMAD and national police also in the house

This guy is A+ Plus Press!!!! Swanky as hell. I think I'm more D-

That's ok. Police launch gas at us all equally

Indigenous guard leads the Minga in to join us near Centro. Hello, 7000 more people

Plaza de Bolivar is filling out. Announcers say two major marches have yet to arrive. Student groups currently pouring in as representatives from the Minga give speeches. Civil groups stopped their matches to allow them to enter first out of respect

The mother of Dilan Cruz is speaking to the crowd. Her son became an icon for protests last year when he was killed by ESMAD. She is eliciting a hell of a response from the crowd

I'm headed back to check the DSLR pics. Very peaceful day. Police were pretty hands off. If the goal today was build momentum for Nov 21 national strike, it was def a success

Cops were pretty hands off. Most of the Minga is leaving the city as I write this. Work calls

Beautiful day. Def biggest turnout in a year. The plan is to come back bigger next month. We'll see

Hopefully ESMAD can resist gassing everyone around 5. That's ussually how these things go tho 😬

Hi rez pics soon. Thanks for reading if you got this far!!

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