Around 100 protesters gathered in Washington D.C. for the weekly Fuck the Police March organized by the They/Them Collective, an anarchist group that was active in fighting back against the Million MAGA March. They led the protesters to Black Lives Matter Plaza, delivering speeches, and then promptly dispersing as the last protest of the night.
Protesters in Barcelona took to the streets against evictions going on in Catalonia, that have resumed despite a mass economic crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the entirety of Spain that has resurged. More than 2,000 attended, and clashed with police later on in the day.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok in a second round of mobilizations against the monarchy of Thailand and the mishandling of the pandemic by Prime Minister Prayut, a general who took office in the 2014 military coup d’état. Despite police use of rubber bullets and tear gas, the crowd, angered by previous repression on August 7th, attacked and burned police posts.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Larissa in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching to the city’s ancient theater and dropping banners demanding the immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker’s request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Around 30 anarchists in Livadia took to the streets for a 3rd consecutive day in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, gathering at the local town hall and then marching through the city center dropping leaflets until dispersing.
