Portraits from the frontlines of global protests

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Alex Munoz Fuentes, 47, an accountant, poses for a photograph with a Chilean flag in Santiago, Chile, November 8, 2019. "People in the world are tired of injustice," said Fuentes. "I don't want anything given for free," "But I know that in Chile the institutions, the law and the constitution are made to abuse the working classes. I want a new deal,". "Hong Kong is similar, the authorities are not thinking about people's wellbeing... I have a fraternal hug for them, and all my solidarity from Chile. Please don't give up." Image Credit: Reuters

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Hiba Ghosn, 36, who works in the fashion industry, poses for a photograph behind her friends sitting in the afternoon sun on Martyrs' square, as people gather for a demonstration during ongoing anti-government protests in Beirut, Lebanon, November 17, 2019. "They are thieves, every single one of them. They've been robbing us for 30 years," She said. "The new generation should come in and politicians that are more like us, and see what we see. I think it's gonna take a very long time to reach there...but we will. I think we've woken up the dragon." "(Globally) people have had enough. I think they are all asking for those basic rights." Image Credit: Reuters

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Teacher Andres Felipe Vargas, 52, poses for a photograph at a protest during a national strike in Bogota, Colombia November 27, 2019. "The government that is currently in Colombia is an extreme right-wing government that wants to take away more and more of our rights... it is a government that only wants to encourage inequality, Colombia is the third most unequal country in the world," Vargas said. "Throughout history it has been seen that things don't just happen, things change with revolutions ... with the French revolution, with the industrial revolution. Right now we are in a stage of awakening and we have to take advantage of that." Image Credit: Reuters

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Mohammad Anas Qureshi, 20, who is a fruit vendor, poses for photo with the national flag of India in front of riot police during a protest against a new citizenship law in Delhi, India, December 19, 2019. "We are here to protest against the new citizenship law. This law is wrong against Muslims and India. It will divide the country. We won't let it happen," he said. " I think all the protesters all over the world are fighting for their rights." "Protesters all over the world are our brothers. We hope that God gives them more strength in their fight for their rights." Image Credit: Reuters

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Paola Correa, 37, who is an artist, poses for a photograph at a protest during a national strike in Bogota, Colombia, November 26, 2019. "I go out to protest because I am sure that the demonstrations... can generate the social and political transformations that this country needs," Correa said. "In reality, I do not protest for me, I protest for people of other races, for the peasants, for the disappeared." "There are many ways to support the protests, there are people who don't go out on the streets because of the fear that the state itself is generating... but (you) can make a difference, in how you treat others, that's also a change, and it happens from the most intimate moments of our lives." Image Credit: Reuters

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Protester Didier Baylac, wears a yellow vest as he poses for a photograph during the 56th round of protests, with a backdrop of social discontentment triggered by president Macron's pensions reform plan in Paris, France, December 7, 2019. "I demonstrate for a better purchasing power," Baylac said. "I am here also against the rise in violence carried out by the police forces at the Saturday demonstrations," he continued."All the powerful, all the rich, want us to believe we live in a wonderful world, that we are protected, we do not need to worry about anything. All this is untrue: it is only the case for the rich people who are protected ... all the other honest small people struggle." "(People should) get up and demonstrate every Saturday to show what is wrong with your country. All this in the most peaceful way possible." Image Credit: Reuters

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Rivera Zambrano, 67, poses for a photograph as he and fellow coca farmers and supporters of Bolivia's ousted President Evo Morales, stage a blockade at the main road of The Chapare province, in Villa Tunari, Bolivia, November 26, 2019. "There is injustice," said Rivera. "This a government selling our homeland. No one chose them. All people are on a vigil, which we will not lift. We do not want that president." "We want peace. The previous governments did nothing for us. Only the government of Evo Morales has done something for us. We are claiming our rights." Image Credit: Reuters

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Amiri Yacine, 26, a student, poses for a photograph during a protest rejecting the December presidential election and against the country's ruling elite in Algiers, Algeria, November 15, 2019. "I am protesting against injustice and dictatorship," said Amiri Yacine, 26. "People are protesting around the world. In Lebanon, Iraq Chile, France, Hong Kong and Haiti, because of injustice and corruption," Yacine, who has joined rolling demonstrations since February in opposition to the shadowy elite that has controlled Algeria since independence in 1962, feels his demands are universal. "We want to build a new Algeria...we want free media and a total respect of human rights. Also, we want jobs and infrastructure," Yacine said. "My message to protesters is just be peaceful - be wise and keep calm. Fight the system with good ideas, because they don't have ideas." Image Credit: Reuters

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Rese Domini, 31, an activist for an organization called the Haitian Equality Movement for Fraternity (MONEGAF) poses for a photograph during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 10, 2019 "Here we are not treated like humans," said Domini. "We don't have access to hospitals, schools, university, food, security or infrastructure," he said. "That is why it is important for us to rebel against the accused Jovenel Moses and ask him to leave. He is a thief...we need a government that can meet our needs. Many places are protesting because there is exploitation everywhere." Image Credit: Reuters

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Umm Mahdi, 66, an Iraqi demonstrator poses for a photograph during the ongoing anti-government protests, in Baghdad, Iraq November 25, 2019. "I come to protest for rights and against illegitimacy. The government is illegitimate, there are no jobs, no housing, no services and the protesters have a good cause. I should be with them because I am like a mother to them," Mahdi said. "If the government provided jobs or housing or services to citizens the youth would not be protesting and sacrificing their lives." "My message to the protesters is: 'I am with you until the last day of my life, I support you - keep your peaceful protests going until you get your rights,'" she continued. "I will not back down from participating in protests until our youth get all their rights from the corrupt and unjust. Any people who protest do so because they have been oppressed." she said. Image Credit: Reuters

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