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Collected Item: “Protests Demanding Supplies”

Give your story a title.

Protests Demanding Supplies

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshots of a Tweet

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Worker safety has been a top priority as states across the globe have struggled to maintain a semi-functioning economy, and is all the more important as governments try to transition into reopening. In Oaxaca, workers set up barricades outside of the Office of the Health Secretary to demand for more supplies to keep them safe.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#protests, #covid-19, #Mexico, #Oaxaca, #PPE

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Twitter user @ExpressOaxaca created the tweet, Joey Dorion took a screenshot

Give this story a date.

2020-06-15
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