On the 5th of October, at around 1 A.M., another demonstration took place against police, albeit far smaller. Police violently assaulted protesters, and then left after realizing that the situation would not escalate without their presence. Credit to Sergio Olmos for the filming.
Dozens of protesters in New York City marched from Harlem to the Bronx and shut down the Madison Avenue Bridge to denounce the NYPD’s predatory attacks against the Black & Brown community in the Bronx. Despite a heavy police buildup, no confrontations nor arrests occurred.
Anarchists in Dresden protested in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Around 1000 protesters marched in Patras against police repression in universities, demanding the repeal of a law passed by the Ministry of Education allowing police to enter universities for the first time in decades since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Dozens of protesters and family members of Lebanese students living abroad burned barricades and shut down banks in opposition to procrastination by the financial institutions in implementing the so-called Student Dollar law that enables them to transfer funds to their children studying abroad.
