Dozens of tenants under the Toronto ACORN union protested in front of the office of Caprent Apartments, delivering the CEO Mark Kenny a letter of demands to cancel rent and freeze evictions for those renting their units.
Riots took place in the Polish town of Lubin after a police officer murdered a young man under arrest, asphyxiating him by placing a knee on his neck. Hundreds arrived at the local police station, chanting “Murderers!” and hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police. At the end of the day, more than 50 arrests were made by riot police.
On the 4th of October, a small group of Patriot Prayer members held an anti-BLM rally in Portland. Counterprotestors quickly arrived, with confrontations but no major fights occurring until the slightly larger BLM counterprotest pushed the right-wing group out of the city. Patriot Prayer was heavily armed with assault weapons as well.
Over 100 protesters in Heraklion marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate government satisfaction of the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of Sudanese activists protested in Khartoum the day before the 2nd anniversary of the Khartoum Massacre, in which over 128 demonstrators were killed by security forces in the midst of a national uprising. The activists burned tires and blocked roads, demanding long-wanted concessions from the government.
