On the 14th of September, Puget Sound Anarchists blockaded a road used for industrial logging on so-called British Columbia on unceded Pacheedaht territory to stop the Teal Jones company from logging on indigenous land that was never given to so-called Canada. This action took place on the north side of Edinburgh Mountain on so-called Vancouver Island. The blockade succeeded in stopping logging for days before it was cleared and normal activities resumed.
The Revolution Now protests continue through the 13th amid increased calls for police defunding/reform and the killings of a dozen protesters over the last days. Many protesters have been met with brutality, but none more have been killed since the 12th of October.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and in solidarity with Chilean political prisoners convicted during the uprising against neoliberalism and police violence. Police violently repressed the demonstration, implementing a blackout in the city center and using water cannons to attack the crowd.
Hundreds of protesters in Volos marched against police brutality in Greece, seen recently after a college student was beaten by police in a park under the guise of enforcing coronavirus restrictions and an invasion of a university occupation by plainclothes officers which resulted in 33 arrests.
Around 150 protesters in Larissa marched in solidarity with protesters in Thessaloniki following the brutal repression by police of the student occupation of the Aristotle University rector’s office. Demonstrators called for the repeal of the law passed 2 weeks before, which authorized police to enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
