Protesters in Barcelona protested on Guy Fawkes Day for government accountability among other things, demanding the release of many antifascists that have been imprisoned by the Spanish state. Clashes with police later occurred, alongside the marches that also took place elsewhere all over the world.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Protesters in North Brooklyn against the pipeline gathered in the dozens, demonstrating against a fracked gas pipeline that would begin to go through poor and majority-black neighborhoods. The NBP has been long delayed by protesters who sit-in and halt construction at the site almost every day.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tarragona to demand freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing rapper from Catalonia arrested and facing charges for insulting the Bourbon royal family of Spain. Demonstrators clashed with police, who fired tear gas in response to the placing of barricades by youth.
Over 1000 protesters in Minneapolis marched the day before the beginning of the Derek Chauvin trial, demanding justice for George Floyd after his murder more than 10 months prior.
