Indigenous Kanakans gathered at a southern nickel factory owned by the Vale megacorporation based in Brazil, which the French government is working with to buy most mines. Multiple clashes ensued, with roads being blockaded and police opening fire with rubber bullets on the protesters organized under the Socialist Kanak Liberation Front.
2500 protesters marched in Patras against the reintroduction of police to universities in a bill proposed by Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, demanding the retraction of the law put forward by the leading conservative New Democracy Party.
About 250 anarchists and environmentalists gathered at the Dannenrod activist-occupied forest in Germany to block deforestation crews from carrying out their operation. The German police had often harmed activists that were protecting the forest, cutting rope and making many of them fall, sometimes sustaining injuries too.
Protesters in Britain, the United States, Canada, and Italy turned out in almost a dozen cities, including Toronto, Baltimore, Raleigh, New York, Nashville, Houston, Glasgow, and Napoli. Attendance ranged from the dozens to the thousands, with protests taking up large swaths of city squares.
Student anarchists dropped banners in the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE) and in the Athens Polytechnic University, as well as tagging graffiti in the neighborhood of Zografou in solidarity with the N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas and to demand that police stay out of university campuses across Greece, a measure recently taken by the right-wing government to “end lawlessness”.
