Protesters from Abolition Park took to the streets in New York to demand housing justice for the houseless. New York has 80,000 unhoused residents but 240,000 empty houses, and activists are demanding their filling. Abolition Park marched from a hotel to Times Square for housing justice in New York.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Dafni metro station in Athens and marched in opposition to police brutality and the government’s mismanagement of the COVID-pandemic, which has sought a policy of overfunding the police and military as cases in Greece continue to steadily increase.
Thousands of protesters in Athens returned to the streets to demand the repealing of a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would allow police to re-enter universities for the first extended period following the student uprising and subsequent fall of the military dictatorship in Greece after 1974.
Hundreds of protesters across Eswatini returned to the streets in opposition to the continued existence of the country’s government, recognized as the last absolute monarchy in Africa. Demonstrators set fire to assets and businesses belonging to King Mswati, following brutal repression by security forces and police.
Hundreds of Chileans took to the streets across Santiago the day after the police murder of a street juggler in Panguipulli. Demonstrators gathered at several areas, including Pudahuel, Plaza Ñuñoa, Puente Alto, and Maipú, clashing with police and burning government structures.
