Police in Athens attacked over 100 protesters at the Omonia Metro protesting in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, using batons indiscriminately and forcing them back into the metro that most of them used to flee the scene. Demonstrators promptly regrouped at the Syggrou intersection, setting fires and clashing with police.
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Dozens of people gathered in Santiago to coordinate a protest for the release of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising, when a fascist identifying with the Popular Socialist Vanguard shot rubber bullets at the demonstrators along the Ahumada, injuring several. When the crowd began to attack him, police stepped in to defend the fascist, stopping the crowd from getting to him. The march then proceeded to the Forest Park in the center of the city and was met with extreme violence by the Carabineros who immediately deployed armored vehicles.
Greek anarchists in the historic city of Nafplio hung banners in solidarity with the N17 political prisoner and hunger striker Dimitris Koufontina, demanding his transfer to a lesser-security facility in Piraeus, a neighborhood of Athens.
About 250 anarchists and environmentalists gathered at the Dannenrod activist-occupied forest in Germany to block deforestation crews from carrying out their operation. The German police had often harmed activists that were protecting the forest, cutting rope and making many of them fall, sometimes sustaining injuries too.
Thousands of protesters in Chicago took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine, marking the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba and demanding the immediate end of US support for Israel, an internationally designated apartheid state criticized for brutal treatment of its colonized Arab population.
