Hundreds of protesters gathered at the town hall of the Exarcheia borough of Athens, demanding the halting of the plan to privatize and clear the Strefi hill public space to create a commercial center. Despite a heavy buildup of police forces at the site, no arrests were made and protesters successfully shut down the area.
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Hundreds of protesters in Terrassa gathered to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested for insulting the monarchy, and everyone arrested during demonstrations in his support. Police attacked the gathering, kettling the crowd and making several brutal arrests.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of São Paulo in opposition to right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, demanding greater expanded access to vaccines and the end of ethnic cleansing against indigenous people in the Amazon to make way for plantations and farms.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Cerro Chena mountain in opposition to a proposed sports city at the site near the capital city of Santiago. Torture and disappearances had been known to occur on the mountain under the previous neoliberal dictatorship of Pinochet, and demonstrators demand that all human remains be removed before the sports city begins construction.
Around 75 protesters in Portland gathered at the Justice Center for a demonstration demanding the abolition of ICE, an agency created alongside DHS in 2001 to patrol the southern border, a task marred with allegations of human rights violations and atrocities committed.
