Protesters in Santiago placed barricades along the memorial of Villa Francia on Curacaví street, demanding the end of state terror against the Mapuche communities of Chile by Carabineros, following an incident in which the 7-year-old daughter of the murdered activist Camilo Catrillanca was violently arrested by police.
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Demonstrators in Paris, Marseille, Nancy, Lyon, Toulouse, and many other cities took to the streets as part of a sustained movement against the Global Security Bill that bans videos and photos taken of police ‘with the intent of doing harm to the officer in question’. Police in Paris assaulted protesters at the Trocadéro, deploying water cannons and arresting at least a dozen.
Hundreds of Iraqis gathered at the Muhammad al-Qasim Highway to place barricades and disrupt activity as part of the anti-corruption protest movement, chanting slogans against Soleimani and Iranian intervention. The Iraqi government responded by sending dozens of security forces, with heavily militarized riot police assaulting protesters on foot.
Dozens of students in Ioannina marched against police repression seen at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of a law put forward by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which allowed police to return to universities for the first time since 1975.
Demonstrators for the Los Angeles Tenants’ Union protested in front of the house of Kathryn Barger (Chair of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors) against evictions that have insofar not been canceled by the Supervisor. They joined forces with Hillside Villa and the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action.
