Thousands of partygoers gathered in Huntington Beach, in Los Angeles, after organizing online, dubbing the event ‘Adrian’s Kickback’. Participants blocked roads and threw fireworks at police vehicles, with many jumping on and damaging police cruisers. Over 150 people were arrested, charged with a wide variety of offenses.
Hundreds of protesters in Ahvaz, an Arab city in Iran, took to the streets in the midst of a water shortage in Khuzestan province. Police killed at least 4 demonstrators but were chased off by the large crowd.
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.
Protesters took to the streets for Sean Kealiher, an anarchist killed by police earlier this year. The protest was flare themed, hence the name ‘Light The Sky for Sean’. It was a success, with no protesters arrested, and no police officers making it there in time to stop the demonstration.
Thousands of students and other protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike and demanded the repeal of a law passed allowing police into universities across Greece for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship.
