A group of protesters gathered at the ancient theater in Larissa and hanged a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the more humane Korydallos prison in Athens.
Residents of the Armenian diaspora in Philadelphia demonstrated in the hundreds to call on the United States to demand the end of war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Hundreds of members of the indigenous Mbya Guaraní community marched in Caaguazú to demand the resignation of president Marito Abdo, widely held responsible for the suspicious disappearance of $1.6 billion from Paraguay’s healthcare budget, which has led to an overwhelming of hospitals that have been forced to ration medicine and suspend elective surgeries like appendix removal.
Hundreds of feminists in Mexico City took to the streets after the police murder of a Guatemalan woman, refugee, and mother of two in Tulum. Demonstrators managed to take several riot shields and faced off with police at the National Palace.
Hundreds of Chilean protesters in the Santiago commune of Puente Alto marched to demand the abolition of police and the resignation of right-wing President Sebastian Piñera. Intense clashes with Carabineros (Chilean law enforcement) occurred, resulting in the torching of a gas station.
