
Category: Rallies


Rally Against Construction of 7 Waste Incineration Plants in Buenos Aires

Waste Pickers March against displacement in Tshwane (South Africa)

Rallies for the rights of Waste Pickers in Colombia

MNCR National Struggle Day

Reclaimers of the City of Joburg marched to protest a new source segregation program

Rally in Bogota for the global waste pickers’ day

Global waste picker day 2017: Recycling in our hands

Mobilizations in Paris: Reuse and recycling lay in our hands!

On Environment Day, Delhi’s waste recyclers shared their message

Brazilian waste pickers join social movements at the World Social Forum in Tunisia

Markets for biffins: a solution, not a problem!

Waste pickers of Indore celebrated India’s 66th Republic Day

Waste pickers and other social movements gathered in Delhi to assert rights

Long live the biffins of Paris!

Waste pickers matter in India’s cleanliness campaign

The Biffins of Paris will march for their right to work on April 9!
Ladies and gentlemen the elected municipal officials, you must stop suppressing waste picking and trading, talking about doing so or obsessing over it! Rather, create new market areas as biffins, everywhere, are waiting and expecting a policy worthy of the name, which recognizes the value of the junk trade and provides the space it deserves. Let us speed up the junk business! All to the junk market!

48 cartoneros take a 40-hour bus ride to meet the new pope in Rio
The young, uniformed cartoneros caught the attention of passersby in the crowd not only because of the size of the group – 35 – but because of the worker’s uniform they wore for the pilgrimage. It consists of dark blue pants and jackets lined with neon green strips for visibility. It clearly marked them as workers. The members of the MTE stood out for another reason. They conveyed a seriousness that was in contrast to the many of the chatty, smart phone-carrying teenagers. They are young workers, and they seem older than their years.

UCRUS: the 5th march against privatization in Uruguay
A Montevideo bill proposed for January 2014 would create “exclusionary zones” where waste pickers and their horse-drawn carts would not be allowed to enter. The bill involves not only the exclusion of waste pickers but the privatization of recyclables only accessible to so-called “authorized” parties.

MNCR’s stance on the protests in Brazil
MNCR (Brazil’s national waste pickers’ movement) pledges its continual support of the protests happening across Brazil for concrete goals of social and environmental justice but explains why it’s important to keep informed and aware about conservative, elitist and prejudiced groups that have been trying to appropriate the protests to promote their own interests, with the backing of and manipulation by the Brazilian elite and the media monopoly.