Protesters unfurled a banner in front of the Portland ICE facility, condemning the organization and its practices as genocidal and harmful towards migrants coming through the border from Mexico. The camps have long been remarked as concentration camps for horrible treatment of detainees and poor sanitation.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the small rural town of Acacías, in the Meta department/province, to protest against the privatization of healthcare and police violence in Colombia amid a general strike. Demonstrators set fire to the town hall, following intense police interventions in the area.
The RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) campaign demonstrated outside of the governor’s office, demanding the release of Arthur Green, a 70-year-old man who has been in prison for 44 years. He is currently dying of end-stage renal failure in prison hospice, and protesters call it inhuman to keep him away from his family during his last days.
About 150 protesters gathered in front of the ICE facility in Portland to demand the abolition of the agency created in 2002, whose dismantling would legally be within Biden’s direct jurisdiction. DHS & Portland Police attacked the demonstration, using incredibly toxic amounts of the possibly carcinogenic HC tear gas, and making targeted arrests of medics and press.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets and clashed with police in opposition to the monarchy of Thailand and the rule of Prime Minister Prayut, a general who assumed office in the 2014 military coup and largely seen as responsible for the mishandling of the pandemic and lack of vaccines.
