On the 19th, about 250 protesters gathered to protest ICE’s brutal treatment of detainees in Times Square. The police reacted almost immediately, kettling them in and arresting ~60 protesters, mirroring the arrest of 26 protesters at a demonstration outside of the ICE federal offices earlier this week. Many of those arrested will be charged with disorderly conduct.
Over 1000 protesters in Minneapolis marched on the day that the Derek Chauvin trial began, demanding justice for George Floyd and that the killer cop be found guilty of his murder.
Hundreds of bikers took to the streets of Santiago to demand safe and free access to abortion for all women, who have had to rely on miscarriage and illegal procedures to get an abortion due to its status in Chile as illegal. Protesters cycled down the Alameda, the most famous and large road in the country, chanting anti-Piñera slogans and disrupting traffic.
Dozens of Italians gathered at the Greek consulate in Milan in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17N revolutionary group on hunger strike for nearly a month to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would give him adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Activists gathered near Oakland at a houseless camp between Mosswood park and the highway in response to a presence of police and CalTrans workers at the scene, appearing to be carrying out an eviction. As demonstrators consolidated their presence, CalTrans workers left, and the houseless camp itself was left alone.
