1,000 Portlanders attended a vigil in Vancouver for Kevin Peterson, remembering him and demanding justice against his killers. Right-wing agitators from Patriot Prayer armed with AR-15s arrived as well, assaulting protesters, as well as a Trump truck ramming through the crowd. After the vigil, protesters marched to Portland and the courthouse in Vancouver, being shot at twice by a Trump supporter.
Daily Archives: October 30, 2020
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Protesters took to the streets again for Karon Hylton, whose family members have also repeatedly been attacked by police. At least 10 protesters were arrested, and a cousin of Hylton was among them. No police were injured during the protest.
Warsaw protesters hit the streets in numbers nearing 50,000 during the National Strike against the restriction of abortions. Several fascist gangs also attempted to assault protesters but were beaten back by anarchists and antifascists.
Protesters took to the streets in Vancouver, Washington, after the shooting of Kevin Peterson by police at least 5 times in the back for running away while unarmed. Within an hour of the news, 30 protesters had showed up to begin fighting with police; it would be 11 hours before Peterson Jr.’s body was taken away. Protesters took to the […]
Students in universities and high schools in Minsk went on a mass strike, with tens of thousands participating and effectively halting educational activities. Some workers also went on strike and protests took place in a few neighborhoods across Minsk.
Protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine took to the streets on the 30th to protest the Constitutional Court rulings that effectively destroyed post-Euromaidan anti-corruption infrastructure, the public officials’ asset declaration system. This system allowed for public access to officials’ finances and enterprises, and its destruction has caused massive outrage in Ukraine. Protesters gathered outside of the Constitutional Court, with police tear-gassing the […]
Protesters from Abolition Park took to the streets in New York to demand housing justice for the houseless. New York has 80,000 unhoused residents but 240,000 empty houses, and activists are demanding their filling. Abolition Park marched from a hotel to Times Square for housing justice in New York. Protesters from Abolition Park took to the streets in New York […]