Members of the Otomi indigenous central Mexican group occupied the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples and burnt files and furniture of the building. The reason cited was that the government failed to accept their demands to end pro-corporate megaprojects in Santiago Mexquititlán.
Strong clashes occurred in the town of Cañete during a demonstration in support of Mapuche political prisoner Oscar Pilquiman, an indigenous activist framed for a robbery in 2019. Police attacked the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, while protesters returned the favor with Molotov cocktails.
Around 250 anarchists and communists in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin marched in protest of the eviction of a houseless camp in Rummelsburg Lake, demanding the restoration of the stolen property of the houseless and the opening back up of the lake’s waterfront to tents.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the funeral of Haykel Rachdi to demand justice for the young activist who died after being shot in the head by a tear gas canister by police in the Kasserine Province city of Sbeitla. Police tear-gassed the funeral and made several arrests of women, children, and young men.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Gandhi Monument in Panama City to demonstrate on the anniversary of the American invasion of the country in which more than 5,000 people were killed. A coalition of groups gathered, mostly from the Marxist-Leninist SUNTRAC organization, burning and stomping on flags of the United States.
