Dozens of anarchists in New York City marched on the city’s 84th Precinct on what would have been Trayvon Martin’s birthday, following an incident in which a police officer refused to wear a mask and assaulted a protester. At least 100 police trailed the demonstration, considered by many to be a ridiculous response.
Via Freedom News TV
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Heraklion for the biggest protest in the city’s history, demanding the end of a proposed law that would bring police back to university campuses across Greece, proposed by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos.
Chilean protesters placed barricades on the 810th Kilometer of Route 5 in Mafil, in support of the Mapuche communities of Malleko province, where the police beat the families of a murdered activist at a border checkpoint.
Thousands of protesters converged on al-Haboubi Square in Nasiriyah, to protest against the Iraqi government’s repression of anti-corruption activists and the implementation of a curfew in several cities. Riot police then opened fire on the protesters, and, bizarrely, the Iraqi military began exchanging gunfire with riot police, resulting in at least 1 death on each side.
Protesters in Brownsville protested against the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline in New York, with dozens of people attending demanding the halting of the development of the pipeline that could pollute poorer and black-majority areas of the city.
