Dozens of protesters in Seattle gathered for a Black Lives Still Matter march, led by black abolitionists demanding the abolition of the SPD and ICE. Protesters sang chants against SPD, police, ICE, and prisons, blocking roads in order to disrupt activity as much as possible.
Monthly Archives: January 2021
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Dozens of youth in Lebanon cut off the Jiyeh highway, Al Masnaa-Chtoura Road, and Dahr Al Baidar Road at the Jdita Junction, in solidarity with protesters in Tripoli demanding an increase in employment opportunities and living conditions.
Around 400 protesters in Tripoli gathered to demand an increase in living conditions in the Sunni-majority region, the poorest in all of Lebanon with a large number of the population living below the UN poverty line. Escalations began outside of local Hezbollah headquarters, with the military attacking protesters who responded by lighting barricades and throwing rocks.
Barricades were placed and burned by protesters in La Ligua on the Northern Route 5 road against the "Doña Carmen" energy project put forward by the Chilean IMELSA corporation, with the aim of installing a power plant in the town of Quebradilla.
Community members of the Villa El Alba neighborhood of Puente Alto protested against municipal incompetence from a power outage lasting over 32 hours, causing families and warehouses to have their food spoiled and many other supplies lost due to the summer rains that hit Chile.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the La Serena Regional Administration Office in defense of the water sources of the Elqui, Limarí and Choapa provinces under threat of privatization, also demanding the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising.
Hundreds of socialists & anarchists gathered in the Catalan city of Reus to protest against a rally organized by the far-right Vox party, with several confrontations occurring and riot police arriving on the scene. Although counterprotesters were physically blocked from chasing down the fascists, they were successfully forced to disperse.
Leftists in Bern dropped a banner at the Greek Embassy in Switzerland in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the November 17 revolutionary group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would give better medical treatment of his conditions and the ability to see visitors.
Colombian riot police brutally attacked dozens of street vendors protesting in Bogota for a stimulus in order to stay home and not have to work in unsafe conditions in a pandemic. Tear gas and rubber bullets were deployed against peaceful demonstrators, with police armed in near military gear.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Innsbruck in solidarity with refugees in Europe and against the horrific human rights abuses of migrants by the EU, including the creation of the pan-European border agency Frontex and the Moria concentration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Police assaulted the demonstration, pepper-spraying participants in the face and making several arrests.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Berlin against the creation of a pan-European border security agency called Frontex and the state of the Moria refugee/concentration camp in the island of Lesbos, Greece.
Anti-government protesters in Tunis gathered at Human Rights Plaza to demand the release of imprisoned youth and activists during the new spring of demonstrations, marching to the city center and confronting a line of riot cops who blocked them from advancing. Protesters in response threw paint bombs, drenching the police, and smoking marijuana in front of them in defiance of the country's outlawing of the drug.
Dozens of Athenians gathered in the area of Pedion Areos & Kypseli to protest in solidarity with migrants in Greece, marching to the front of the Turkish embassy to protest against the Erdogan regime's involvement in war in Syria causing economic hardship for millions who have fled the country to countries as far away as Germany.
Dozens of protesters in Seattle gathered for the Dexmaamxsgism Da Libaalx indigenous-led march for justice for black lives and all others who have fallen to police brutality. Local citizens of native tribes gave speeches about economic and social oppression facing people of color, then marching and chanting anti-capitalist and anti-police slogans.
Dozens of protesters in Columbus gathered in remembrance of Casey Goodson on what would have been his 24th birthday; demonstrators marched north from First Avenue, stopping at a park to hang banners and sing a happy birthday to a victim of police brutality.