Abolitionist protesters gathered on Christmas Eve in Paris to light fireworks in solidarity with all prisoners in a “light demo”, also making lots of noise. Demonstrators started that they had an obligation to share the Christmas season to those criminally separated from their families.
Hundreds in Athens marched to demand the end to the overfunding of police, to whom the government has been giving money instead of the long-overwhelmed healthcare system which is nearly at full capacity of ICU beds.
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.
Hundreds of inmates in the St. Louis Justice Center protested for court dates, breaking windows and setting objects on fire to demand a trial for many detained in the facility, some of which have gone without a date set for their charges for well over a year.
Protesters in Berlin gathered to demonstrate in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the N17 revolutionary group demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would give him access to better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
