Riots rocked the French city of Tourcoing following a police operation in which motorcycles and scooters used for urban derbies were rounded up and seized by law enforcement, resulting in participants and fans clashing with police, throwing fireworks in response to the use of tear gas.
Daily Archives: April 17, 2021
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150 protesters in Washington D.C. returned to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a victim of police murder in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. Police attacked the demonstration as it ended, making several arrests and dragging protesters on the floor.
Around 200 anarchists in Athens gathered at Exarcheion Square and marched afterward in support of anarchist political prisoner Vangelis Stathopoulos, kept in pre-trial detention for over 18 months without any conviction of crimes supposedly committed.
Dozens of anarchists participated in a neighborhood march in Kypseli, Athens, in solidarity with the Lelas Karagianni 37 squat in Exarchia, the oldest squat in Greece and a central hub for organizing.
Hundreds of protesters returned to the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man murdered by a police officer. Unlike previous nights, police did not brutally assault the crowd and allowed for a peaceful dispersion.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched against unjust wars and interventions, decrying the true enemy of Greece as not being any nearby enemies but rather the American imperialist bloc and neocolonialists in the European Union.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched against imperialism, demanding that the government exit from NATO and the EU. Demonstrators held banners with insignias of Greece's communist party, KKE, and the splinter group KKE (M-L).