On the 29th, members of OFAPP (Organization of Family and Friends of Political Prisoners) rallied outside of the (in)Justice Center in Santiago to pressure the government to release those detained during the anti-state uprising of October. About 100 people attended the event.
Thousands of protesters across several sites in Athens marched against police brutality, lately and frequently seen after a college student was beaten for no particular reason in a park and a university occupation was invaded by plainclothes officers.
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Portland suburb of Tigard following the police murder of a mentally ill man with little apparent threat to the life of the officers. Following the realization that there was no police presence at the Tigard Police Department, demonstrators began smashing up windows and attempted to breach the facility until several police cruisers rolled in.
Thousands of students and other protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike and demanded the repeal of a law passed allowing police into universities across Greece for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the seaside town of Vilanova to demand freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned for criticizing the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators marched through the city, burning barricades and clashing with police after law enforcement arrived on the scene in riot gear.
