Greek students’ and teachers’ unions blockaded the entrance of the Athens Polytechnic University, demanding the end of the plan to reintroduce police to university campuses. Blockades are expected to continue into the following days, with neither the Students’ Associations of the Athens Polytechnic or the NTUA Employees’ Union appearing to be willing to let up.
Via Μένουμε Ενεργοί – Υγεία, Συλλογικότητα, Αλληλεγγύη
Hundreds of Palestinians in Umm al-Fahm in the northern West Bank rioted with Molotov cocktails, petrol bombs, and other explosives after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shot and killed 22-year-old Muhammad Nasser Agbaria while he was parking his car in an anti-violence protest. The IDF deployed water cannons against the protesters, making 4 arrests.
Dozens of students in the small island city of Siros marched against the law proposed by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which would restore police to university campuses across Greece for the first time since 1975 with the fall of the military dictatorship.
Around 100 protesters in Seattle marched in opposition to the war in Tigray, demanding the immediate halt to the genocide of the local Tegaru population by a joint effort of the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies, both widely condemned for committing massacres and mass rape against the breakaway province’s population.
Dozens of Portland protesters marched from Grant Park to the house of the Portland Police Association’s Lawyer, hanging a banner on the porch and keeping him awake for a while with lights and chants until police arrived on the scene, forcing demonstrators to disperse.
