About 150 protesters marched on the ICE facility in Portland to demand the immediate abolition of the agency, which new President Biden has expressed his opposition to doing. Demonstrators were horrifically attacked with chemical weapons and munitions, including tear gas, pepper balls, TC gas (a deadlier form of tear gas and possible carcinogen), and many other forms of assault.
Daily Archives: January 20, 2021
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About 50 New Yorkers protested in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, demanding police defunding, rent cancellation, the abolition of ICE, and more, marching west with a heavy police presence following them. The crowd dispersed peacefully, and no arrests occurred.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Seattle hours after Biden was inaugurated, demanding the abolition of ICE in a direct action march of targeted destruction against companies that work with those who carry out deportations. Starbucks, a notorious pro-police company, and Amazon were both targeted during the demonstration before police showed up and brutally arrested a few people.
Around 400 protesters in New York marched from Washington Square Park in opposition to anti-Asian violence beginning to spike across the country due to racism and false blame for the pandemic; demonstrators headed north on 6th Avenue at W34th before later dispersing.
Dozens of protesters marched to the California State Capitol in Sacramento in opposition to a planned Trump event there, then splitting up into 2 groups and making noise outside of the Sacramento County Jail while marching through the city with an Abolish ICE Banner.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the City Hall of Ohio in Columbus in opposition to Trump and a planned far-right event at the site, which only 1 person ended up arriving to. Demonstrators then marched to the Statehouse, finding a heavy police presence there that had seemingly been placed for inauguration security.
Hundreds of anticapitalist students marched in Paris to demand the reopening of universities with social distancing protocols in place in order to alleviate the psychological distress and mental disorders beginning to set in on the global population of youth, who have been forced to learn from home due to COVID.
Protests sparked in the central Somalian town of Galkayo amid anger over missing children; they were allegedly sent to the city of Asmara in Eritrea for military training, then deployed to Ethiopia and killed in the war and genocide against the northern breakaway province of Tigray. Police responded by opening fire into the crowd, causing numerous injuries but no reported deaths.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of US-backed president Jovenel Moise, seen by many as a tyrant who kills on behalf of the interests of neocolonial European & American interests, especially after his dissolution of Parliament in 2019. Police responded with extreme brutality, opening fire with live bullets and killing at least 1 activist.
15 protesters gathered in front of the entrance to the Krome Detention Center to the west of Miami in solidarity with the detainees inside but were blocked by a heavily armed contingent of police. Demonstrators then led chants on the highway, receiving honks of support from those passing by.
Hundreds of Portland protesters marched to the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters, smashing in windows and tagging graffiti before the crowd was brutally assaulted by police. Protesters then headed to Irving Park, where they saved a mother and child in a car accident before marching once again and returning without any confrontations with police occurring.
Anarchists in Chile set barricades on the Maipo road in the Los Guindos neighborhood in the Santiago metropolitan region, in remembrance of Jorge Mora "Neko", who was run over by a police car on the outskirts of the Monumental stadium during a football riot on January 28th. Demonstrators unfurled a banner demanding revenge for Neko & Ariel Moreno, who was shot and killed by police during a riot in Neko's honor the day after his murder.
Greek anarchists in Heraklion dropped banners in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontina, an imprisoned former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who began a hunger strike demanding a transfer to a lower-security facility in the Athenian neighborhood of Piraeus.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the former Third Precinct of Minneapolis on J20 in a statement of defiance against the new neoliberal regime of Biden, demanding healthcare for all, cash relief, an end to police violence, and an end to capitalism.
Sporadic protests occurred across Tunisia, centered around Sbeitla, Sidi Bouzid, and Tunis. Demonstrators in a town near Sidi Bouzid placed barricades and protested to demand a betterment of living conditions, clashing with police. In Sbeitla, near the city of Kasserine, youth clashed with police who deployed tear gas in the streets, dispersing the crowd. Family members of arrested protesters & activists demonstrated in Tunis, condemning the degeneration of the Arab Spring revolution and calling for the downfall of the regime.