Hundreds of fans of Egaleo F.C., an Athens-based football club, took to the streets at Iera Odos junction, in solidarity with antifascists persecuted by the Greek authorities and in other countries worldwide. The banner hoisted read, “The pandemic needs doctors, not cops and repression.”
Mapuche indigenous militants placed barricades on the Cunco-Huichahue Route in the Araucania region in opposition of the militarization of Wallmapu, the traditional homeland of Chile’s indigenous people.
Demonstrators gathered outside of the Office of Human Rights in Cancún, setting fires and spray-painting street art. Riot police arrived at night, and opened fire with live rounds at protesters, injuring 3 with bullets and wounding dozens of activists and reporters with batons.
Dozens of protesters across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu took to the streets with students and youth in West Bengal who were brutally attacked by police during a march to the State Secretariat.
Demonstrators gathered in Athens in front of the Elta Courier postage delivery office, demanding the reinstitution of the trade unionist Akis G. after being fired for attempting to unionize his workplace. Many criticize the company’s practice of hiring employees as contractors instead of providing them with the proper benefits that they would be entitled to under permanent employment.
