Hundreds of students, teachers, and allies gathered at Georgiou Square and marched across Patras to demand the end of a bill proposed by right-wing Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, widely despised in Greek progressive circles as a reactionary figure.
Daily Archives: January 28, 2021
Hundreds of students, teachers. and allies in the Cretan city of Heraklion took to the streets against the reintroduction of police to universities, in a bill proposed by the Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, a member of the ruling conservative New Democracy party.
Hundreds of protesters in Chania took to the streets against the new bill to bring back police to universities, proposed by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos. Students' associations and teachers' unions were present, marching side by side against cops on campus.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, shutting down its entrances in order to directly delay eviction hearings during the moratorium that will last until mid-February. Around 150 eviction hearings were delayed or cancelled for the day, in a massive victory for the KC Tenants' Union.
Hundreds of protesters returned to the streets of Tripoli to demand an increase in living conditions in the northern Lebanese city which is primarily Sunni Muslim, and far poorer than most parts of the country. Anger had mounted over a protester killed by live ammunition the day before, with a demonstration taking place at his funeral and protesters later torching the municipality building.
Anarchists protested alongside striking medical workers at the Evangelismos hospital in Athens, demanding food, housing, education, and healthcare for all, a stance also approved by many doctors' unions. Demonstrators also distributed flyers and hung a banner at the facility's fence.
Thousands of students and teachers in Athens took to the street in opposition to a piece of legislation proposed by Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize university campuses with police for the first time since 1975. Defying the quarantine which banned mass gatherings, demonstrators marched on the Propalyaea in the center of the city. A police presence was mostly absent, and no participants in the protest were arrested.
Around 300 antifascists in Berlin took to the streets against skepticism of COVID-19 and fascist conspiracies claiming that the virus was created by a global elite, marching through the borough of Kollwitzkiez, slightly northeast of the city's heart. Although a heavy police presence existed there, no arrests or confrontations took place.
Dozens of demonstrators in Seattle marched in the weekly Black Action Coalition protest demanding justice for black lives lost to police brutality across the country, moving through several main roads to carry out disruption as a form of direct action.
Hundreds of students in Thessaloniki marched against a new bill proposed by the Greek Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize police campuses with an elite police force. Demonstrators marched through the city, with frontliners locking their arms as a deterrent for any sort of police assault.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Santiago during protests on the anniversary of the police murder of Neco Mora & Ariel Moreno, who were killed by Carabineros in 2020 during confrontations at a protest. Extreme clashes occurred with police throughout the night, although protesters mobilized in several locations.
Dozens of students in the northwestern Greek city of Ioannina took to the streets during a national mobilization against a bill proposed by Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize university campuses with an elite police squad. Despite a ban on gatherings in place, police did not attack the demonstration.
Activists gathered near Oakland at a houseless camp between Mosswood park and the highway in response to a presence of police and CalTrans workers at the scene, appearing to be carrying out an eviction. As demonstrators consolidated their presence, CalTrans workers left, and the houseless camp itself was left alone.
Greek anarchists protested alongside striking medical workers & doctors at the Theageneio Cancer Hospital in Thessaloniki, demanding a raise for those working at the facility, as well as a universal right to food, housing, education, and healthcare for all.
Dozens of protesters marched in Santiago to demand that the government halt pension cuts as well as pay them out to elderly people who are also houseless, who have been widely excluded from receiving social benefits. Demonstrators also attacked the state policy of handing out the job of pensions to life insurance companies, which are widely viewed in Chile as negligent.