Around 150 protesters in Larissa marched in solidarity with protesters in Thessaloniki following the brutal repression by police of the student occupation of the Aristotle University rector’s office. Demonstrators called for the repeal of the law passed 2 weeks before, which authorized police to enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
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Italian leftists protested in Saronno, Lombardy, demanding the halting of public health care cuts that the province’s government has been committing to for the past decades. The crowd also condemned cuts to the pay of private-sector workers and exposure to COVID-19 that students face.
Greek anarchists in Heraklion dropped banners in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontina, an imprisoned former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who began a hunger strike demanding a transfer to a lower-security facility in the Athenian neighborhood of Piraeus.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across the Netherlands against a curfew set for 9:00 P.M., many a mix of migrants & poor people as well as adherents to QAnon-style conspiracy theories that believe that COVID-19 is a deep-state conspiracy. Police lost control of several cities, including Eindhoven, the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and many others.
#RevolutionNow protests in Nigeria continued throughout the 17th, and grew drastically. From a small movement that had hundreds of protesters, thousands of demonstrators marched through Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, and other cities. Protesters also attacked the motorcade of a governor whose police forces had killed several unarmed and peaceful protesters.
