Hundreds of anticapitalist students marched in Paris to demand the reopening of universities with social distancing protocols in place in order to alleviate the psychological distress and mental disorders beginning to set in on the global population of youth, who have been forced to learn from home due to COVID.
Around 150 protesters in New York marched to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man murdered by police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Demonstrators blocked the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and were intimidated by police, although no arrests occurred.
Belgian abolitionists in the Molenbeek neighborhood of the capital city of Brussels lit fires and burned cars in the area, protesting against state repression and brutal curfew.
Thousands of Chilean demonstrators took to the streets in Santiago to commemorate the International Day Against Violence On Women, marching on the presidential palace to condemn Piñera’s complicity in violence against women and his lack of action on the issue. Many clashes took place throughout the day, with looting occurring for the first time en masse in the Chilenazo.
Anarchists in Athens attacked the Kaisariani police station in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, severely damaging one of the facility’s walls and destroying several motorcycles parked at the site.
