Students at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) began protests after the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) refused to give out the December allowances given to all students of South Africa. Demonstrators then proceeded to block the university’s entrances with burning barricades, before being attacked by police, leading to several arrests.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched in the city of Tamra to protest the apartheid regime established by the Israeli state, which a few days before had murdered 2 young men who were unarmed and non-resistant.
Portland protesters on night 200 made it to the top of the Portland Police Association (PPA), a prominent police union building, placing a guillotine on top as well as a banner calling for the union’s abolition.
Around 45 protesters in Lamia marched in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the Greek government accept the demands of the former member of 17N to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Student anarchists dropped banners in the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE) and in the Athens Polytechnic University, as well as tagging graffiti in the neighborhood of Zografou in solidarity with the N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas and to demand that police stay out of university campuses across Greece, a measure recently taken by the right-wing government to “end lawlessness”.
