Dozens of protesters gathered in Athens for a demonstration in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former 17N member who went on hunger strike starting the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens. Police brutally attacked the protest, pepper-spraying participants point-blank, cornering and beating them.
Via Danai Maragoudaki, Lolos Marios, Stergios Alexiou, & Nikos Christofakis
Thousands of women in Valparaíso took to the streets on International Women’s Day to protest against government incompetence in stopping femicides and to demand safe and legal abortions in all of Chile. Police attacked the demonstration, using tear gas and water cannons to disperse peaceful protesters.
More than 50 people protested the development of Hudson Yards in front of it, an extremely expensive and subsidized housing unit, which cost almost $6 billion in taxpayer dollars. The area was also gentrified, with many affluent tenants and shops moving out of the area after housing costs soared.
Protesters across New York dropped banners for a wide variety of reasons, including rent cancellation, a 2nd stimulus, and the freeing of all prisoners of ICE held in cages in the city’s detention facility. There was also a #NoNBKPipeline banner dropped from the top of a building, to compensate for the lack of activity that has been going on against it.
Land defenders of the Red House Eviction Defense continued to build up their barricades and defenses, placing political slogans and banners on […]
