Italian anarchists and communists protested in Saronno, Lombardy, demanding the halting of public health care cuts that the province’s government has been committing to for the past decades. The crowd also condemned cuts to the pay of private-sector workers and exposure to COVID-19 that students face.
Credits to Il Rovescio.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Rochester the day after a police officer pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl, demanding an investigation into the event and the immediate dismissal of the officer responsible. Demonstrators marched to the police station, shaking barricades, before leaving to avoid arrests and dispersing shortly after with a caravan of support on their tail.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago gathered for a round of demonstrations in support of Mapuche & anarchist political prisoners of the social war in Chile. Police attacked the demonstration with water cannons, making mass arrests of participants while other demonstrators threw rocks at their vehicles.
Protesters gathered in Athens at the office of Amnesty International in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the N17 revolutionary group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would enable him to see visitors and receive adequate medical treatment.
Hundreds of protesters in Girona gathered to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested for insulting the monarchy in his works. Youth clashed with police in many alleyways, throwing rocks and burning barricades after law enforcement arrived to disperse the demonstration.
