Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
Daily Archives: February 23, 2021
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Hundreds of healthcare workers gathered at the ministries of Labor and Health, as part of a strike called for by POEDIN (Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees), demanding more money to help deal with the pandemic instead of for funding the army and police with more and more unnecessary and repressive gear.
Dozens of protesters gathered for a flash demonstration in front of the house of the President of Greece in Athens in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see his family and other visitors.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the seaside town of Vilanova to demand freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned for criticizing the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators marched through the city, burning barricades and clashing with police after law enforcement arrived on the scene in riot gear.
Hundreds of protesters in the Iranian majority-Sunni and Baloch town of Saravan set the governors' building and several police cars on fire after government forces opened fire on dozens of fuel traders at the Iranian-Pakistani border, killing at least 37. Following government forces opening fire on demonstrators, more public buildings fell.
700 protesters in Barcelona returned to the streets for an 8th night to demand freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned for criticizing the Spanish monarchy, as well as the release of all those arrested amidst demonstrations in his support. After police attempted to kettle the crowd, several protesters blocked roads with barricades and began throwing objects at police.
Over 100 protesters marched in Portland to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man murdered by a former police officer in Georgia on the 23rd of February 2020. Demonstrators sang chants against police, prisons, and capitalism, calling for the fall of the prison-industrial complex.
Dozens of healthcare workers gathered in Patras to demand divestment from police funding into mass testing and vaccinations for the people of Greece, also demanding the opening of close hospitals and the expansion of the number of hospital staff present.
Around 100 protesters in Rochester marched after no officers were charged in the murder of Daniel Prude, a black man suffocated by police who put a hood over his entire head, causing him to die a week later. Demonstrators marched to the Rochester Public Safety Building, pushing aside barricades and pushing on the front door before dispersing.
Thousands of protesters in Thessaloniki marched after brutal police repression against a student occupation of the Aristotle University rector's office, with 31 arrests being made and dozens of officers in riot gear blocking anyone from entering that area of the campus. As demonstrators pushed towards the courts, police released the 31 students to meet the elated crowd, singing chants against law enforcement.
Around 100 protesters gathered at the Ministry of Macedonia - Thrace in Thessaloniki during a nationwide hospital workers' strike in Greece, demanding more money for containing the COVID pandemic instead of emptying the budget into police repression and militarization. Demonstrators hung banners and sang chants, then dispersing to join the student demonstration taking place that day.
Dozens of protesters in Xanthi marched against a law passed by the Greek parliament recently reintroducing police back to universities for the first time since 1975, which had catastrophic effects after 31 people were arrested by riot police at the occupation of the rector's office at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Hundreds of students gathered at the Propylaea in Athens to demand the repeal of a law recently passed by the Ministry of Education which reintroduced police to universities for the first time since 1975, after which dozens were arrested at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki during a student occupation of the rector's office.
Dozens of servers, baristas, and other service workers blocked Highway 85 in Bogota to demand subsidies for their new unemployment from the Colombian government, requesting negotiations with the government for either a reopening of such spaces or a stimulus to keep workers on their feet. ESMAD (riot police units) attacked the demonstrators, beating several of them and deploying tear gas.