Protesters took to the streets in Vancouver, Washington, after the shooting of Kevin Peterson by police at least 5 times in the back for running away while unarmed. Within an hour of the news, 30 protesters had showed up to begin fighting with police; it would be 11 hours before Peterson Jr.’s body was taken away.
Dozens of protesters in the town of Livadia took to the streets in numbers of around 40 people in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the government accept his demands to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
The police in Portland aggressively assaulted protesters, pre-emptively attacking their camp before the demonstration even began as well as immediately beginning to arrest protesters after it began.
Dozens of protesters in Valparaíso took to the streets on International Workers’ Day as part of a national strike in Chile, placing barricades, blocking roads, and burning tires in the Playa Ancha sector.
