Thousands of protesters in Chicago took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine, marking the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba and demanding the immediate end of US support for Israel, an internationally designated apartheid state criticized for brutal treatment of its colonized Arab population.
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Protesters in Iranshahr shut down roads leading to Saravan, the site of the beginning of the Baloch uprising in which dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded by a brutal Iranian government crackdown.
Hundreds of youths in the city of Vic clashed with police to demand the release of political prisoner Pablo Hasel, a Catalan rapper arrested in Lleida under charges of insulting the Spanish monarchy. The city’s police station was smashed in, and burning barricades were placed to stop the advance of law enforcement.
Demonstrators gathered at Nikaia, a neighborhood in southwest Athens, to protest against police repression and brutality in neighborhoods and unemployment for which a stimulus has not been provided during the COVID pandemic.
Anarchists in Seattle protested in solidarity with the general strike in Colombia, which was sparked in response to police violence and threats of privatization coupled with tax hikes. Demonstrators called for the end of state violence towards the movement and the immediate halt of arms sales to Colombia.
