An Abolish Homelessness demonstration was held at ~3:00 P.M. in New York, around 53rd St. and 7th Ave. The goals of the protesters were to house the homeless with the empty hotels that exist all around the city, with no guests amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 11 protesters were arrested inside of the Sheraton hotel, and are expected to be released later.
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.
Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
Over 100 protesters gathered in Montreal to demand the end of curfew during the pandemic, calling for a solution to the crisis not involving police. Many involved in the march made it clear that they were pro-science, pro-mask, and pro-vaccine, but that using police to raid people’s homes and ensure that they were following quarantine is tyrannical.
Anarchists in Patras protested in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas on his 33rd day of hunger striking for transfer to the Athens Korydallos prison, marching in the Agia Sofia and Tabachana road junctions and dropping leaflets displaying the demonstrators’ demands.
