Dozens of members of the Anarchist Political Organization gathered at the municipal doctor's office of Kypseli, a neighborhood of Athens, to demand free food, housing, education, and healthcare for all. Protesters dropped a banner at the site and distributed leaflets in the area to avoid contact with police.
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Armed Mapuche weichafe (warriors) seized the Route P-70 highway at the Lleu Lleu bridge near the towns of Cañete & Tirúa in solidarity with political prisoner César Millanao facing the courts on charges stemming from his participation in the social uprising of Chile, during which Millanao was arrested in December 2019.
Dozens of protesters in Yangon returned to the streets at nightfall, banging pots and pans and blocking roads in opposition to a military coup carried out on the 1st of February against the elected leader of Myanmar, Su Chi.
Around 30 protesters gathered in Yangon in opposition to the military coup in the country, chanting slogans against the country's army and in support of Myanmar's civilian leader who was elected and in control of the government in the country's first-ever democratic era.
Protesters in St. Paul gathered to march against evictions after a landlord began to carry out evictions in low-income housing. Demonstrators dropped a banner at the site and confronted police, who harassed demonstrators but made no arrests.
Anarchists in Thessaloniki gathered to protest in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November revolutionary group who went on hunger strike starting on the 8th of January, demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would allow him to see visitors and receive adequate medical treatment. A heavy police buildup arrived at the demonstration, detaining 7 participants without clause of arrest, later releasing them.
Turkish political exiles in Athens gathered in Protomagias Square and dropped a banner in solidarity with the student uprising at Boğaziçi university, demanding the resignation of the conservative-Islamist AKP-appointed university rector installed in January.
Dozens of protesters gathered at a courthouse in Patras in solidarity with 9 comrades arrested during the occupation of the SW Achaia Offices, marching through the city waving a banner demanding the acceptance of N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas' demands, including his transfer to Korydallos Prison in Athens where he can access better medical treatment and see visitors.
Thousands of people in Myanmar went out on their balconies and the streets to bang pots and pans and blare their car horns in opposition to the military coup that had occurred just 1 day before against one of the first civilian leaders in the country's history.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the town hall of the Exarcheia borough of Athens, demanding the halting of the plan to privatize and clear the Strefi hill public space to create a commercial center. Despite a heavy buildup of police forces at the site, no arrests were made and protesters successfully shut down the area.
Prisoners inside the Santiago Company Jail No. 1 protested to demand the release of all political prisoners from the social uprising and demand the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera, releasing a statement against the prison-industrial complex in Chile and beyond.
Dozens of protesters in Ft. Lauderdale marched in Las Olas against a law proposed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which is seen by many as repressive due to its possible legalization of running over protesters who are blocking roads, and making participating in an unlawful assembly a felony. Protesters marched to a local jail, banging pots and pans and chanting slogans to the inmates who banged on their windows in support.
Dozens of antifascists gathered in solidarity with 4 arrested protesters from a demonstration in Innsbruck against the European border security agency Frontex, which ended in police assaulting the crowd with batons and pepper-spray.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Rochester the day after a police officer pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl, demanding an investigation into the event and the immediate dismissal of the officer responsible. Demonstrators marched to the police station, shaking barricades, before leaving to avoid arrests and dispersing shortly after with a caravan of support on their tail.