Hundreds of Iraqis gathered at the Muhammad al-Qasim Highway to place barricades and disrupt activity as part of the anti-corruption protest movement, chanting slogans against Soleimani and Iranian intervention. The Iraqi government responded by sending dozens of security forces, with heavily militarized riot police assaulting protesters on foot.
Daily Archives: January 12, 2021
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Over 100 protesters returned to the streets of Antofagasta demanding amnesty for all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile. The city ended the night with barricades on several roads and the streets on fire, with a crackdown by Carabineros failing to materialize.
Greek students gathered in Athens to oppose a proposed education bill being debated in Parliament, chanting slogans in front of the Propylaea and dropping banners. The education bill supposedly seeks to improve the quality of tertiary education and eradicate "rampant lawlessness" on campus. A proposed 1000 guards would be sent to universities, who would have every sort of weapon that a normal police officer would minus lethal guns, and would also be in riot gear most if not all of the time; they would be created to fulfill the duties of police, who are banned from universities.
Greek anarchists in Athens dropped banners at the Pedio Areos and Protomagias squares, calling for workers to stop accepting the theft of their wages by bosses, and to organize into unions for self-defense against capitalist policies.
Activists dropped a banner at the New York Public Library in Midtown, demanding the abolition of ICE and immediate, permanent protection for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
Dozens of Portland protesters marched from Grant Park to the house of the Portland Police Association's Lawyer, hanging a banner on the porch and keeping him awake for a while with lights and chants until police arrived on the scene, forcing demonstrators to disperse.
50 New Yorkers marched from the Barclays Center to the Manhattan Bridge, calling for justice for 2 victims of police brutality in Ohio, Andre Hill and Casey Goodson. Protesters called for the investigations into the police murders to be reopened, and for the officers to face accountability.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Courts of Justice in Santiago, comprising of unionized health workers and families of political prisoners in Santiago. Medical workers demanded the release of political prisoners for both health reasons due to possible contraction of COVID, as well as the mental health effects comparable to torture due to isolation for months from friends and family.
Dozens of protesters in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas gathered to demonstrate against Trump’s visit to the border wall, pointing out that the cost it takes to build 1 mile of wall could pay for 300,000 coronavirus vaccines. Abolish ICE organizers demanded the destruction of the wall, under the slogan #NotAnotherFoot, and made it clear that the community of the Rio Grande Valley was in opposition to its existence.