Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Valdivia against the police murder of a street artist in the city of Panguipulli for the crime of not presenting his ID, with the crowd gathering at Simón Bolívar Plaza to demand justice for the killed juggler.
Via Resumen & Prensa Estudantil
Workers in Fayetteville, North Carolina, have walked off the job for a $15 minimum living wage in the state, and to raise awareness for the election and turn out the vote to ensure the defeat of Trump on November 3rd.
Hundreds of students gathered at the Statue of Venizelos in Thessaloniki in opposition to a new bill proposed by the Greek government, which would for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 reintroduce police on university campuses. Demonstrators then marched to the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, meeting with teachers’ unions, pressuring the regional administration not to support the new measures.
Greeks in the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos clashed with police, demanding an end to class-based quarantine and segregation, with politicians and the wealthy like the Prime Minister being allowed to violate travel restrictions and other quarantine measures. Barricades were built to resist DELTA bike cops who tried to arrive on the scene, with Molotov cocktails being used to repulse government forces.
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.
