Protesters gathered in Portland for the Trans Day of Remembrance protests across the world, attacking several businesses and the Mexican consulate, due to the government’s horrible record with handling femicide. The businesses One Main Financial, Whole Foods, State Farm, Miller Paint Co., Chase Bank, Bank of America, Rose City Realtors, and Wells Fargo were all damaged during the protest.
Thousands of protesters in Cali took to the streets for a 4th consecutive day as part of a general strike in Colombia, opposing new tax hikes on basic goods and services as well as the privatization of healthcare. Police responded with brutal repression, opening fire with live rounds and attacking peaceful demonstrations at multiple sites across the city.
Around 150 protesters in New York marched to demand justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man murdered by police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Demonstrators blocked the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and were intimidated by police, although no arrests occurred.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
As thousands continued to hold the line across Peru during the agro-industrial Panamerican Highway blockade for better wages and working conditions, police […]
