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.
Around 1000 protesters in Thessaloniki marched on International Women’s Day starting from the Statue of Venizelos, demanding an end to patriarchal violence and oppression during a #MeToo wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment against top officials in the Greek government.
Over 10,000 protesters marched in the Athens district of Nea Smyrni after a couple in a park was attacked by police for supposedly violating COVID guidelines. Police attacked demonstrators with flashbangs and tear gas, which resulted in the crowd assaulting one police officer and leaving him with a nonfatal head injury. For the rest of the night, police ran around the area, brutally assaulting anyone who approached them.
November Protest Wrapup
Protesters in Belarus have continued to protest in small gatherings and friend groups against the Lukashenko regime all over Minsk and other […]
