Portlanders took to the streets during the Indigenous Day of Rage on the 11th of October to protest the presence of colonial statues and the hero-worship of such figures. Demonstrators toppled the statues of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, both well-known genocidal actors against indigenous peoples.
Dozens of protesters in the town of Agia Paraskevi northeast of Athens took to the streets in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, gathering at Mesogeion Avenue in numbers of around 60 people.
Hundreds of students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki resisted a police crackdown on the rectorate’s occupation and marched against state repression, broadcasted many times following the previous invasion of the university in which dozens of arrests occurred.
Around 400 people in Heraklion marched against police brutality justified by enforcing COVID-19 restrictions, with law enforcement and the military overfunded despite hospitals being overwhelmed with ICUs in Greece near full capacity as the healthcare system is left without money.
Protesters continue to take to the streets to turn out the vote for a national plebiscite to change the constitution that remains since Pinochet created it. Many protests and clashes occurred in Plaza Dignidad, with police using water cannons and frequently fighting with protesters.
