Dozens of protesters in Minneapolis gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center, demanding a fair jury selection process in the Derek Chauvin trial, over which the police officer is being charged with murder after killing George Floyd via suffocation with a knee on the black man’s neck.
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Residents of the autonomous and self-managed Prosfygika squat in central Athens dropped a banner in solidarity with N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontina, calling for the immediate acceptance of his demands to be moved to a prison with less security in Athens.
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.
Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
A 50-strong black bloc in Seattle took to the streets to protest police brutality in the city. It was noted for its uniqueness due to the fact that it remained nonviolent, therefore wasting the resources of the dozen police that trailed them, leading to many recognizing it as a success.
