Dozens of workers at the Total Grandpuits refinery in France entered a 15th day of striking and attempting to halt access to the facility in protest against the company’s conversion plans, which trade unions estimate will lead to 700 layoffs.
125 protesters marched in Portland during the new Sunday protests organized by the mother of Patrick Kimmons, a black man killed in 2018. Organizers of the demonstration called for a reopening of the case on the police killing of Kimmons, who allegedly was armed and facing away from law enforcement.
Around 2000 protesters took to the streets of Thessaloniki in opposition to the management of the pandemic, with the military and police overfunded in Greece as ICU beds continue to fill up and the healthcare system becomes quickly overwhelmed due to underfunding.
Thousands of protesters in Athens returned to the streets for a third consecutive mobilization in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, lighting flares and marching to Omonia once again singing anarchist chants and other slogans in solidarity with the hunger striker and former member of 17 November.
Members of the Squatted Community of Prosfygika protested in solidarity with Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey. Demonstrators demanded the end of isolated imprisonment for the rebel leader, who has not been allowed to have visitors during an extended period of his sentence.
