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Parents at French Embassy-linked school call for sit-in

Parents at the French Embassy-affiliated school Grand Lycee Franco-Libanais called for a sit-in on campus to protest a teachers’ strike that saw students out of school for almost a month.

The teachers’ association declared an open strike Friday last week after the school administration broke a promise to reinstate a pay raise stipulated in the salary scale law endorsed by Parliament in 2017.

Sit-in for shop owners in Baalbek demanding an end to the security chaos

فاد مراسل "النشرة" في ​بعلبك​ عن اعتصام لاصحاب المحلات التجارية امام ​سراي بعلبك​ لابلاغ رسالة الى المحافظ لوضع حد للفلتان الامني في المدينة والذي لم يعد يحتمل بحسب المعتصمين. وفي السياق، استنكر رئيس وأعضاء ​جمعية تجار بعلبك​ (الوسط التجاري) ​حسين عواضة​ الاعتداء بالرصاص الحي و​إطلاق النار​ على المحلات التجارية في وسط سوق بعلبك ليل أمس وتسبب بأضرار جسيمة، وحمل المسؤلية الى ​نواب بعلبك الهرمل​ ووزراءها ولجان الإصلاح و​القوى الأمنية​ والسياسية هذا الفلتان الأمني.

Haddad calls for recount at Beirut protests

Hours ahead of the release of official election results Monday, hundreds of demonstrators descended on the Interior Ministry in Beirut to voice their opposition to the electoral loss of an independent candidate in unclear circumstances. Not just expressing support for LiBaladi candidate Joumana Salloum Haddad, protesters criticized Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk, who heads the ministry in charge of implementing and overseeing the elections and who was successful in his own race for a seat in Parliament.

Civil Campaign to Protect Dalieh

Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support them by attending a series of events they have prepared this week. The events are actually FREE (another endangered thing in Beirut) so all you have to do is show up. Scroll down for full schedule.

Locals gather against Koura cement factories

 Dozens of residents in Koura took to the highway in Kfar Hazir Sunday to hold a sit-in to demand the closure of local cement factories and call on the government to ban cement exports over health concerns.

The protest, organized by the environmental committee of Kfar Hazir, issued a list of short-term and long-term demands, read out by the committee’s coordinator George Costantine al-Itani.

Demonstration in Baalbeck after shop owner assaulted

قدم اصحاب المحال التجارية على قطع الطريق بالاطارات المشتعلة عند مدخل ​بعلبك​ الشمالي قرب ساحة ​مستشفى​ الططري، احتجاجا على اطلاق النار من قبل مسلحين على محل ج. غ. لتصليح كهرباء السيارات، والإقدام على الاعتداء بالضرب على صاحب المحل.

وانتشر ​الجيش اللبناني​ في المحلة، وطالب اصحاب المحال بإقامة حاجز ثابت للجيش بعد تكرار حوادث اطلاق النار على محلاتهم.

Demonstration in Kfar Kila

وطنية - أفادت مندوبة "الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام" في مرجعيون الين سمعان، ان أول رد فعل شعبي، على بدء العدو الصهيوني ببناء جدار فاصل مقابل طريق عام كفركلا- العديسة، تمثل بتجمع حوالى 70 شابا على متن دراجات نارية، وجالوا على الطريق المذكور وهم يحملون أعلاما ل"حزب الله"، ورفعوا أحد هذه الأعلام على السياج التقني، وهم يطلقون شعارات ضد العدو.

وعلى الفور سجل تحرك لدبابة ميركافا في موقع تلة رياق العسكري المشرف على بلدة كفركلا، فيما حضرت قوة تابعة للعدو ووقفت مقابل وجود الشباب المعترضين. 

Forest rangers protest at Baabda against stalled appointments

Successful applicants for the government’s forest ranger service held a protest near the presidential palace in Baabda to coincide with Wednesdays Cabinet session, calling on the government to issue decrees appointing them to their jobs.

The protesters called on Prime Minister Saad Hariri and President Michel Aoun to issue the appointments, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Successful civil service applicants for a number of public institutions, including forest rangers, have been protesting against the delay of their appointments in recent months.

Women protest for right to pass citizenship to their children

Hundreds of women and children gathered in Riad al-Solh Square in Downtown Beirut Friday to protest a law that forbids Lebanese women to pass their citizenship onto their children. The sit-in was organized by the “My nationality is a right for me and my family” campaign which holds an event annually around Mother’s Day.

This year, with the May 6 parliamentary elections approaching, the campaign adopted the slogan, “My vote = my right,” insisting that only candidates that support women’s rights will get their vote.

Thousands rally at Women's march in Beirut

Thousands took to the streets in Beirut Sunday to voice their “shared anger” on a range of issues facing women in Lebanon to mark International Women’s Day.

The march started at noon under the slogan, “Different Causes, Shared Anger.” Colorful posters and banners spoke out against domestic violence, child marriage and violence targeting domestic workers and trans women.

"We have one struggle, one anger, even though we’re all covering very different grounds," Mira Mawla, an activist from Feminist Network, which helped organize the march, told The Daily Star.

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