Right-wing groups held an anti-LGBTQ+ event in Toulouse on the 10th of October, which was met with strong opposition from a queer anarchist bloc. Police protected the right-wing march and tear-gassed the anarchists a total of 3 times, but eventually, the counter-protest managed to push back the march.
Demonstrators gathered at highways across Germany and dropped banners in solidarity with environmentalist and anarchist activists occupying & protecting Dannenrod Forest, dropping banners at more than 10 sites, blocking more than 7 highways for the day.
Around 200 students in Patras marched against a law passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece, which would allow for the creation of a university police force for the first time since the banning of police from campuses after the fall of the military junta in 1974.
Nigerian diaspora activists and their allies took to the streets across the world, from Russia to New Zealand. They demanded the end of arms sales to Nigeria, as well as the end of police brutality in the country as well. Thousands were in attendance in multiple areas, raising a big show that had never been seen before outside of Nigeria.
Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Santiago on International Women’s Day, protesting against government incompetence in curbing a rise in femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in Chile. Police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons, who fought back with barricades and rocks.
