Anarchists in Portland attacked the city’s Public Schools Headquarters, torching multiple school district vehicles, breaking office windows, and scrawling graffiti on the walls of the headquarters. Demonstrators participated in the action as part of the Youth Liberation Front’s call to action on the 6th of March against capitalism and the state.
Daily Archives: March 6, 2021
Anarchists in the Southwest Youth Liberation Front gathered at the Central Juvenile Detention Center in Los Angeles to demand that all prisons for children be shut down, calling for no minor to be imprisoned in LA County and the United States. Police gathered in the dozens, detaining several participants and taking down personal information.
Hundreds of protesters in Barcelona marched to demand the release of everyone arrested during demonstrations in support of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges for criticizing the monarchy of Spain and supporting the Basque revolutionary ETA organization.
Police in Athens assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, including the former 17 November member's son, who was arrested during a police advance as a water cannon volley slammed into the frontline of the demonstration.
Around 100 protesters in Seattle marched in opposition to the war in Tigray, demanding the immediate halt to the genocide of the local Tegaru population by a joint effort of the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies, both widely condemned for committing massacres and mass rape against the breakaway province's population.
Dozens of protesters gathered in western Thessaloniki at Evosmos Square in opposition to the government management of the pandemic, forcing people to go out and work while enforcing a brutal lockdown against demonstrations of any kind at the same time.
Thousands of protesters marched in Yangon on the 6th day of civil disobedience in opposition to the military coup in Myanmar, demanding the restoration of civilian rule to the Southeast Asian country marred by a dictatorship led by the armed forces that lasted for decades until the early 2010s.
Anti-police riots took hold of the Bron suburb of Lyon in France, following an accident in which a 13-year-old driving a scooter was assaulted by police.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Larissa in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching to the city's ancient theater and dropping banners demanding the immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker's request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Thousands of protesters in Asunción returned to the streets for a 2nd consecutive day to demand the resignation of the President after the collapse of Paraguay's healthcare system, with elective surgeries such as appendix removal shut down altogether and medicine at a critically low supply. Demonstrators first marched to the National Congress and then the palace of the president, clashing with police and singing chants against corruption.
Dozens of protesters marched in Heraklion in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, moving throughout the city without incident, unlike the previous demonstration in which police had attacked the crowd, which fought back and forced law enforcement to retreat.