35 protesters gathered in Eastern Thessaloniki to condemn the state management of the pandemic, attacking the banning of protests while the Prime Minister of Greece continues to violate quarantine and keep nonessential businesses open. Provided that it was a flash protest, everyone participating had dispersed by the time that police arrived on the scene.
The 2020 Indonesian National Strike was organized in response to the Job Creation Law, which deregulated environmental protections and took off many workers’ rights previously protected. A 3-day strike was organized across the country, lasting from October 6-8. Hundreds were injured, but none were reported killed.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets for a 3rd consecutive day in Elizabeth City to demand justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man shot in the back of the head and murdered by several police officers, who were using assault rifles.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, carrying banners in solidarity with the 17 November political prisoner and demanding the government accept his request to return him to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Dozens of protesters in New York marched through the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan to call for an end to ICE and kids in cages, demanding the immediate abolition of the 21st-century anti-immigration agency that continues to put children in overcrowded and unsanitary camps with very little access to basic services.
