Dozens of anarchists marched in the Athens district of Galatsi in opposition to police brutality seen in Nea Smyrni / New Smyrna, in which police attacked a young couple in a park for supposedly violating COVID restrictions and then also tear-gassed a march that occurred afterwards.
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Anarchists in Bern dropped a banner in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike outside of the Greek consulate in Switzerland, also throwing several firecrackers at the ambassador's home to demand the immediate satisfaction of the former 17 November member's request to be returned to the Korydallos prison.
Around 1000 protesters returned to the streets of Asunción for a 3rd day to demand the resignation of the president following a collapse in the healthcare system of Paraguay, with elective surgeries such as appendix removal halted altogether and medicine at a critically low supply. After gathering in front of the ex-president's house, an avid supporter of the current government, demonstrators were tear-gassed and forced to disperse.
Protesters in the Greek coastal town of Loutraki gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of the former 17 November member's request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Athens suburb of New Smyrna, or Nea Smyrni, following an incident of police brutality in which an officer brutally beat a civilian under the guise of enforcing COVID restrictions. Police proceeded to attack the demonstration with tear gas, which reportedly leaked into the homes of civilians and into trams.
Dozens of protesters in New York marched through the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan to call for an end to ICE and kids in cages, demanding the immediate abolition of the 21st-century anti-immigration agency that continues to put children in overcrowded and unsanitary camps with very little access to basic services.
Over 1000 protesters in Minneapolis marched the day before the beginning of the Derek Chauvin trial, demanding justice for George Floyd after his murder more than 10 months prior.