Anarchists in Portland protested and dropped a banner in solidarity with demonstrators in Colombia, in the midst of an uprising against corruption, wealth inequality, and police violence, who were met with incredible state brutality leaving dozens of participants killed by security forces.
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Hundreds of members of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER) took to the streets of San Juan against the privatization of electricity in Puerto Rico. The Luma corporation would assume the responsibility of power on the American island colony if privatization went through successfully.
Anarchists in Seattle protested in solidarity with the general strike in Colombia, which was sparked in response to police violence and threats of privatization coupled with tax hikes. Demonstrators called for the end of state violence towards the movement and the immediate halt of arms sales to Colombia.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched in solidarity with anarchist political prisoner Vangelis Stathopoulos, demanding his immediate release from pretrial detention and the acquittal of his case built on faulty and subjective evidence to incriminate the activist.
Dozens of protesters in Athens gathered at the headquarters of the AKTOR infrastructure company to demand justice and compensation for 3 workers who died on the job in Evia after they were struck by lightning and thrown off a tower.
Around 200 anarchists in Athens gathered at Exarcheion Square and marched afterward in support of anarchist political prisoner Vangelis Stathopoulos, kept in pre-trial detention for over 18 months without any conviction of crimes supposedly committed.
Dozens of anarchists participated in a neighborhood march in Kypseli, Athens, in solidarity with the Lelas Karagianni 37 squat in Exarchia, the oldest squat in Greece and a central hub for organizing.
Hundreds of protesters returned to the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man murdered by a police officer. Unlike previous nights, police did not brutally assault the crowd and allowed for a peaceful dispersion.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Chicago following the murder of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a police officer, as the middle schooler put his hands up before being killed anyways. Demonstrators scuffled with police after 2 arrests were made, both of which resulted in almost immediate releases.
Students at the University of Piraeus in Athens occupied the campus rector's office in protest against a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would create a university police force in Greece for the first time since the fall of a military dictatorship in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and student uprising.
Hundreds of protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with revolting refugees at the Corinth refugee camp after a 17-year-old Kurd committed suicide when his 16-month detainment was extended on the supposed day that the minor would have been released.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets on the Day of the Young Combatant, placing barricades and setting fires across the area. Police responded with brutal repression but were pushed back by demonstrators after gassing a residential area.
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.
Dozens of anarchists in the Clapham Town of London took over a police station, resisting eviction and seeking to turn the squat into a site of social organization.
Dozens of protesters in Frankfurt gathered at the Greek embassy in the German city in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction by the government of the communist prisoner's request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison.