Dozens of protesters gathered at the Alameda in front of the Presidential Palace in Santiago, demanding the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising. As the Senate voted on a law deciding whether or not young political prisoners should be released, families of those jailed held up photos of detainees as young as 15 held captive by the Chilean government.
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About 250 anarchists and environmentalists gathered at the Dannenrod activist-occupied forest in Germany to block deforestation crews from carrying out their operation. The German police had often harmed activists that were protecting the forest, cutting rope and making many of them fall, sometimes sustaining injuries too.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the small rural town of Acacías, in the Meta department/province, to protest against the privatization of healthcare and police violence in Colombia amid a general strike. Demonstrators set fire to the town hall, following intense police interventions in the area.
Hundreds of protesters in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center took to the streets for a 2nd day to demand justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by officer Katie Potter on the 11th of April. Police and the national guard attacked the demonstration, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.
Greek vegan anarchists in Athens gathered on New Year’s Eve to protest against speciesism and brutality on animals, by the form of mass confinement and murder for meat and other products. Demonstrators marched to Kato Patisia and Agios Nikolaos, dropping leaflets and shouting slogans in front of butchers and fishmongers. Before dispersing, a banner was dropped in the Cyprus park of Patision, after which the march ended.
