Students in the University of Manchester Rent Strike celebrated the end of protests in the first semester after rent was cut by 30% in a concession made by university leadership, by officially de-occupying Owens Park Tower. They stated that the January rent strike would still go ahead, however, if more concessions were not made.
Around 100 protesters gathered at the Ministry of Macedonia – Thrace in Thessaloniki during a nationwide hospital workers’ strike in Greece, demanding more money for containing the COVID pandemic instead of emptying the budget into police repression and militarization. Demonstrators hung banners and sang chants, then dispersing to join the student demonstration taking place that day.
Land defenders of the Red House Eviction Defense continued to build up their barricades and defenses, placing political slogans and banners on […]
Hundreds of protesters in Minneapolis gathered at the scene where a police officer murdered 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man, demanding an immediate prosecution of those responsible. Police tear-gassed the crowd once it arrived at the police station, also throwing flashbang grenades and shooting rubber bullets.
Police in Athens assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, including the former 17 November member’s son, who was arrested during a police advance as a water cannon volley slammed into the frontline of the demonstration.
