Hundreds of protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with revolting refugees at the Corinth refugee camp after a 17-year-old Kurd committed suicide when his 16-month detainment was extended on the supposed day that the minor would have been released.
Monthly Archives: March 2021
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Hundreds of feminists marched in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, demanding justice for Victoria, a Guatemalan refugee who was murdered by police in Tulum via asphyxiation by putting their knee on her neck. Several windows were broken at the demonstration, and clashes with police occurred upon which most of the crowd dispersed.
Hundreds in Athens marched to demand the end to the overfunding of police, to whom the government has been giving money instead of the long-overwhelmed healthcare system which is nearly at full capacity of ICU beds.
A crowd of 40 Loyalist youth gathered in Derry in opposition to customs being set up for travel of goods between mainland Great Britain and North Ireland, disrupting the Loyalist drug trade. The crowd threw a petrol bomb and other objects at police vehicles before dispersing without any arrests made.
Dozens of protesters in the Lo Hermida borough of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, burning barricades and clashing with police who arrived in extremely militarized gear.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Young Combatant, placing barricades and setting fires across the area. Police responded with brutal repression but were pushed back by demonstrators after gassing a residential area.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pintana commune of Santiago gathered to protest on the Day of the Youth Combatant, placing barricades and burning a bus at the site.
Dozens of protesters in Talcahuano took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, burning barricades and blocking roads in honor of the two young activist brothers murdered by the Pinochet military dictatorship that ruled from 1973 until the 1990s.
Dozens of protesters in the San Joaquín neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, burning barricades and clashing with police in confrontations which ended with a bus being set on fire and burned.
Dozens of protesters in the Villa Francia area of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, in which 2 young activist brothers were murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship. Demonstrators placed barricades and clashed with law enforcement, throwing Molotov cocktails at water cannons and other militarized vehicles.
Dozens of protesters in the Santiago neighborhood of Puente Alto and the subdistrict of Bajos de Mena took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, placing and burning barricades and throwing Molotov cocktails at the 66th Police Station.
Dozens of protesters in the city of Antofagasta took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant in Chile, where 2 young activist brothers were murdered by the military dictatorship in the 1980s. Police responded with brutal repression, tear-gassing residential areas as protesters responded with Molotov cocktails.
Dozens of barricades went up at distinct points across Santiago on the Day of the Youth Combatant, in which 2 anti-government activists and brothers were murdered by the military dictatorship. Demonstrators set fires and blocked roads across the capital city in their honor.
Hundreds of antifascists gathered in Salem to respond to a caravan organized by right-wingers to "Stop the Steal", fighting with several people in cars, one of whom at one point pulled out and cocked a gun to intimidate protesters.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets in the northeastern city of Xanthi, participating in a march decrying the police state established in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic, instead calling for methods of controlling the virus without brutal lockdown measures.