70 protesters gathered at the Spire on O’Connell Street in Dublin for a vigil for George Nkencho, a mentally ill Nigerian immigrant recently murdered by the police, calling for a criminal investigation into the national police officer who shot him 5 times.
Hundreds of protesters in the Athens neighborhood of Gyzi took to the streets in opposition to police brutality and state repression in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with police attacking recent mass demonstrations across Greece.
Anti-police riots took hold of the Bron suburb of Lyon in France, following an accident in which a 13-year-old driving a scooter was assaulted by police.
Hundreds of protesters in Osorno took to the streets on International Women’s Day against the government’s incompetence in stopping femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in all of Chile.
Thousands of people in Myanmar went out on their balconies and the streets to bang pots and pans and blare their car horns in opposition to the military coup that had occurred just 1 day before against one of the first civilian leaders in the country’s history.
