About 100 protesters took part in a 3-hour march on the 8th of October against police violence in the city and nearby St. Paul, where dozens of black men have been disproportionately killed by police. Many also believe that the police reports claiming that those killed were armed can be forged with no other active witnesses being there a lot of the time.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the weekly Stonewall demonstration for Black Trans Liberation, marching through the city before stopping for a speech given by Joel Rivera, a trans woman who was sexually assaulted by both male and female officers while in prison awaiting her bail hearing for exercising first amendment rights.
Protesters in 2 sites in Athens gathered to protest against the incursion by police into Athens Polytechnic university and the arrest of more than a dozen occupiers of the university. The Polytechnic University in Athens had previously outlawed the presence of police on campus, and many wonder what justification will be cited for bringing them in.
100 protesters gathered at the Bergen County Jail in New Jersey in solidarity with the 25+ day hunger strike by ICE detainees over horrific conditions inside including rat infestations and lack of PPE. Police attacked the marchers, arresting 9, with 60 riot cops present at the facility after all but 20 demonstrators had dispersed.
Members of the Lafkenche community belonging to Mapuche indigenous ethnic group in Chile burned barricades and protested in the Los Pellines sector to demand their land back and the removal of deforesting/real estate machinery from their territory.
