Dozens of protesters gathered in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona in remembrance of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from Pakistan who was stabbed to death in 2013 on his way to work by 2 supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Despite police harassing the protesters, the march went forward and no arrests were made.
Greek anarchists in Heraklion dropped banners in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontina, an imprisoned former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who began a hunger strike demanding a transfer to a lower-security facility in the Athenian neighborhood of Piraeus.
Hundreds gathered in front of the house of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a steadily growing crowd demanding that he not be placed as Secretary of Transportation. Demonstrators made noise the entire day, then listening to organizers’ speeches and dispersing.
Thousands of protesters across the Chilean capital city of Santiago gathered for the 2nd day of the national mobilization against President Sebastian Piñera, clashing with Carabineros who deployed chemically tainted water cannons, tear gas, and pepper spray. Molotov cocktails would be seen in use several times that day.
The Rouvikonas anarchist collective in Athens launched paint attacks against several tax offices in the Nikaia, Kypseli, Galatsi, Zografou and Maroussi neighborhoods against a bankruptcy code that the conservative-leading government is attempting to pass in the name of dealing with the economic crisis of Greece.
