Portland protesters on night 200 made it to the top of the Portland Police Association (PPA), a prominent police union building, placing a guillotine on top as well as a banner calling for the union’s abolition.
Hundreds of protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with revolting refugees at the Corinth refugee camp after a 17-year-old Kurd committed suicide when his 16-month detainment was extended on the supposed day that the minor would have been released.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Viña del Mar city in the Valparaiso metropolis on International Women’s Day, against government incompetence in combatting a rise in femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in all of Chile.
Over 2000 people gathered at Syntagma Square in front of Parliament in Athens in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, leaving police extremely confused after being undermanned due to claims that the demonstration had been hastily unplanned. Protesters marched through Omonia to Exarcheia before later dispersing.
The University of California in Berkeley put up a fence around the People’s Park, which was founded by radical activists in the 1960s and inhabited by a houseless camp; in response, students protested at the site and tore down the fence, moving it to the university’s entrance in a statement to the administration that any attempt to restrict access to the area would not be tolerated by the community.
