Dozens of cyclists in Santiago took to the streets in solidarity with political prisoners of the uprising in Chile and against the right-wing neoliberal presidency of Sebastian Piñera. Police attacked the gathering, tear-gassing the cyclists and forcing them to flee the area.
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Dozens of protesters gathered in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona in remembrance of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from Pakistan who was stabbed to death in 2013 on his way to work by 2 supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Despite police harassing the protesters, the march went forward and no arrests were made.
Protesters took to the streets for the weekly Stonewall Black Trans Lives Matter march, which attracted hundreds in attendance. Police followed the demonstrators, but no major clashes occurred throughout the night, with the march ending peacefully.
Protesters unfurled a banner in front of the Portland ICE facility, condemning the organization and its practices as genocidal and harmful towards migrants coming through the border from Mexico. The camps have long been remarked as concentration camps for horrible treatment of detainees and poor sanitation.
Thousands of protesters in Athens marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike on International Women’s Day, demanding the immediate state acceptance of the former 17 November member’s demands to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.