Dozens of Seattle protesters gathered at the SPD East Precinct, having a snowball fight and later disrupting police activity by building a wall of snow stopping police cars from leaving the facility.
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30 protesters gathered at the ICE facility in southwest Portland, demonstrating against the treatment of undocumented migrants in the United States. Demonstrators placed trash and plants in the driveway, to annoy DHS agents, who promptly went outside and made 2 targeted arrests.
Thousands of students from the Bosphorus University in Istanbul gathered at the South Campus to protest against the installation of a new university rector by the Islamist AKP ruling party. Police responded by firing into the peaceful crowd with rubber bullets and tear gas, arresting several demonstrators.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched to decry a law recently passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece, which would allow for the creation of a national police force to enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974.
Thousands of protesters converged on al-Haboubi Square in Nasiriyah, to protest against the Iraqi government’s repression of anti-corruption activists and the implementation of a curfew in several cities. Riot police then opened fire on the protesters, and, bizarrely, the Iraqi military began exchanging gunfire with riot police, resulting in at least 1 death on each side.