Dozens of protesters in Manchester marched in opposition to a law debated and later passed in the British House of Commons, threatening to restrict the right to protest in the United Kingdom and also increase police powers and immunity during demonstrations.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago gathered for a round of demonstrations in support of Mapuche & anarchist political prisoners of the social war in Chile. Police attacked the demonstration with water cannons, making mass arrests of participants while other demonstrators threw rocks at their vehicles.
50 New Yorkers marched from the Barclays Center to the Manhattan Bridge, calling for justice for 2 victims of police brutality in Ohio, Andre Hill and Casey Goodson. Protesters called for the investigations into the police murders to be reopened, and for the officers to face accountability.
Thousands of protesters in Thessaloniki marched after brutal police repression against a student occupation of the Aristotle University rector’s office, with 31 arrests being made and dozens of officers in riot gear blocking anyone from entering that area of the campus. As demonstrators pushed towards the courts, police released the 31 students to meet the elated crowd, singing chants against law enforcement.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to Islamophobia and a Separatism Law being proposed in the French government, which would greatly increase the powers of the state to carry out surveillance on political and religious minorities under the guise of preventing radicalization.
