Dozens of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets for a demonstration to demand the defunding of the Metropolitan Police Department, stating that healthcare and education have been defunded for too long in the United States.
Via ChuckModi & Black House News
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta gathered to demand the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile, which sparked a massive protest movement still going strong almost a year and a half after. Protesters placed barricades, in response to which police brutally cracked down and used water cannons.
Anarchists in Portland attacked the city’s Public Schools Headquarters, torching multiple school district vehicles, breaking office windows, and scrawling graffiti on the walls of the headquarters. Demonstrators participated in the action as part of the Youth Liberation Front’s call to action on the 6th of March against capitalism and the state.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets in a general strike in opposition to the rule of Chile by neoliberal right-wing president Sebastian Piñera. Demonstrators gathered at various sites across the capital city, clashing with police who arrived to repress the gatherings.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the weekly Stonewall demonstration for Black Trans Liberation, marching through the city before stopping for a speech given by Joel Rivera, a trans woman who was sexually assaulted by both male and female officers while in prison awaiting her bail hearing for exercising first amendment rights.
