Protesters returned to protest against the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline, which Mayor Bill DeBlasio stated that he was now in opposition to in early December but has insofar not revoked the construction license. Demonstrators gave their intent to continue ramping up protests, and return to campaigning heavily against the NBK Pipeline at the construction site.
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Police assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered at Syntagma Square in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, deploying water cannons, pepper spray, and tear gas against the small crowd which was chased all the way to the National Library, where the remaining protesters were hit directly by a water cannon.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Canadian capital of Ottowa to protest against the Ethiopian & Eritrean war and genocide of the separatist Tigray people, with over 55,000 refugees in the conflict. Demonstrators called on the UN to quickly halt the war, before any further massacres of the Tigrinya people occurred.
Women and feminist collectives took to the streets of the Techotiva neighborhood of the Kennedy district in Bogotá to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office declare a national emergency due to the drastic increase in femicides across Colombia.
Dozens of protesters returned to the streets of Elizabeth City for a 9th day, demanding justice for Andrew Brown, a black man killed by police officers with assault rifles. Despite police arriving in the dozens with riot gear, protesters did not respond and dispersed without caving to the aggression presented by law enforcement.