Around 5,000 demonstrators marched in Girona and clashed with riot police to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a Catalan rapper arrested for criticizing the Spanish monarchy. Youths smashed windows and placed barricades, throwing rocks at police who in response shot tear gas at the crowd.
Protesters from the 18th of October Uprising Coordination organization gathered in Santiago to protest for amnesty for all political prisoners taken by the state during the protests in Chile that have gone on for more than a year.
Hundreds of protesters in Jalalabad took to the streets against the Taliban, marching with the Afghan national flag and replacing the Taliban flag in the city with the national tricolor. Taliban forces fired on the protest with live rounds, killing at least 3 demonstrators.
Dozens of protesters in New York City marched from Harlem to the Bronx and shut down the Madison Avenue Bridge to denounce the NYPD’s predatory attacks against the Black & Brown community in the Bronx. Despite a heavy police buildup, no confrontations nor arrests occurred.
Protesters occupied the construction site of the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline, deemed racist as it was routed to go through black-majority […]
