Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Medellin, protesting against the privatization of healthcare and police violence amid a general strike in Colombia. Unlike previous days, police did not attack the demonstrations, which remained largely peaceful.
Protests took place in Manisa after the closure of a mine in Soma; authorities refused to pay the Somali workers their salary after the closure of the mine, inciting a strike and subsequent protests in the area. A solidarity protest also took place in the Kadıköy region of Istanbul by anarchists.
Dozens of anarchists in the Clapham Town of London took over a police station, resisting eviction and seeking to turn the squat into a site of social organization.
Thousands of protesters in New York City took to the streets in solidarity with demonstrations in Colombia against police violence and the privatization of healthcare. Organizers called for immediate international action in response to police and military brutality and the end of government aggression against protests.
Around 200 Greek anarchists and communists in Patras gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the communist revolutionary prisoner’s request to be returned to his old call at the Korydallos prison.
