Demonstrators gathered at Nikaia, a neighborhood in southwest Athens, to protest against police repression and brutality in neighborhoods and unemployment for which a stimulus has not been provided during the COVID pandemic.
Over 100 protesters in New York City took to the streets to demand the abolition of the NYPD, stopping at the police department’s Times Square station & Strategic Response Group headquarters. Demonstrators burned an American flag and a Thin Blue Line flag, confronting a massive police presence although with no confrontations occurring.
Dozens of demonstrators in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago returned to the streets against the neoliberal police state in Chile, implemented and propped up by the right-wing president Sebastian Piñera. Police brutally cracked down on the protest, deploying water cannons and tear gas.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Esquel and Trelew, 2 towns in Chubut province, against a mega-mining operation in the area that would harm the ecosystem that was approved by the governor. Other protests also occurred in Rawson, with provincial police cracking down on the march and arresting several people.
Anarchists in the Southwest Youth Liberation Front gathered at the Central Juvenile Detention Center in Los Angeles to demand that all prisons for children be shut down, calling for no minor to be imprisoned in LA County and the United States. Police gathered in the dozens, detaining several participants and taking down personal information.
