Over 100 prisoners in the St. Louis Justice Center took over part of the prison, breaking open windows to the joy of many outside who gathered under the facility, dancing and chanting in solidarity with the inmates who said their human rights have been violated and PPE has been denied to them.
Dozens of protesters in Washington DC took part in the weekly FTP March, moving through a popular area of the city and being assaulted by MPD officers who bike-checked demonstrators several times. Although police harassed marchers several times, no confrontations escalated into arrests.
Hundreds of women in Valdivia marched on International Women’s Day, condemning the incompetence of the government of Chile in stopping a rise in femicides as well as demanding safe and free abortion for all women without exceptions.
Hundreds of Thai protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok, demanding the end of the monarchy and the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut, a general who assumed power in a coup in 2014 and is widely held responsible for the lack of access to COVID vaccines. Police repressed the protest, leading to clashes throughout the day.
Dozens of protesters in the Thessaloniki Aristotle University held a rally outside of the occupied rector’s office, demanding the overturning of a law creating a university police force in Greece for the first time since the fall of the military junta that existed from 1967-1974.
