Protesters across the world took to the streets in support of Rojava, commemorating the retaking of Kobane by Kurdish forces after its capture by ISIL. Protests happened in over 2 dozen cities, ranging from Athens to Toronto, with many in Kurdistan itself participating too.
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Protesters in New York clashed with police in solidarity with Philadelphia, vandalizing many police cars. Police appeared to be the main escalators of the night, breaking windows of cars that passed by, with some of them driving away straight into police lines.
Dozens of Afro-Colombians gathered at the Ministry of the Interior in Bogota to demand an end to the cartel occupation of the predominantly black community of Buenaventura, a vital port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
Hundreds of protesters in Málaga took to the streets to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned and facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy, the Bourbon royal family.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched against imperialism, demanding that the government exit from NATO and the EU. Demonstrators held banners with insignias of Greece’s communist party, KKE, and the splinter group KKE (M-L).