Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Pasalimani bay in Pireaus, Athens, to demonstrate against gentrification that pushes the impoverished out of many residential areas, and against police intervention that terrorizes many in neighborhoods.
Anarchists in Exarchia, Athens, took to the streets demanding amnesty for the political prisoners arrested during the December 6 protests on the anniversary of the murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. They began a protest at his murder site and later marched out in the dozens demanding charges be dropped against the arrested the day before. Delta riot police responded by chasing the tail of the protest and arrested several.
Around 1000 protesters in Bristol returned to the streets in opposition to a law that would expand police powers, restrict the right to protest, and also criminalize a nomadic lifestyle. Police brutally attacked the protesters, injuring many and deploying horses and dogs against the peaceful demonstrators.
The Rouvikonas anarchist collective in Athens launched paint attacks against several tax offices in the Nikaia, Kypseli, Galatsi, Zografou and Maroussi neighborhoods against a bankruptcy code that the conservative-leading government is attempting to pass in the name of dealing with the economic crisis of Greece.
Protests occurred all over Belarus as an anniversary of the killings of several poets by the Soviet Union in 1937, with demonstrations taking place in nearly a dozen cities, mostly family gatherings and small friend groups showing solidarity against the Lukashenko regime.
