A protest took place on the 3rd of October in Washington D.C. to commemorate Wide Awakes Day, dedicated to turning out voters in a time when voter suppression is commonplace and many see voting as a waste of time that won’t cause change; about 600 protesters took part in the march, that went through the downtown of the city.
The Revolution Now protests continue through the 13th amid increased calls for police defunding/reform and the killings of a dozen protesters over the last days. Many protesters have been met with brutality, but none more have been killed since the 12th of October.
Hundreds of protesters across Santiago took to the streets in opposition to the presidency of Sebastián Piñera and neoliberalism in Chile. Police brutally repressed demonstrations across the city, many in residential neighborhoods, tear-gassing homes and attacking civilians.
Around 1000 students in Athens marched in opposition to a law passed by the Greek Ministry of Education, which would create an independent police force within universities after a decades-long ban on such a law following a massacre of student protesters by the military junta in 1973.
Anarchists in Athens attacked the Kaisariani police station in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, severely damaging one of the facility’s walls and destroying several motorcycles parked at the site.
