Members of the Squatted Community of Prosfygika protested in solidarity with Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey. Demonstrators demanded the end of isolated imprisonment for the rebel leader, who has not been allowed to have visitors during an extended period of his sentence.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Santiago in support of Mapuche & anarchist political prisoners of the social war and the 2019 uprising in Chile, demanding an immediate general pardon and release for them all. Police repressed the demonstration with water cannons and tear gas, forcing the crowd to disperse.
Around 30 protesters gathered in Yangon in opposition to the military coup in the country, chanting slogans against the country’s army and in support of Myanmar’s civilian leader who was elected and in control of the government in the country’s first-ever democratic era.
Protesters gathered in Brownsville in North Brooklyn at the construction site of the NBK Fracked Gas Pipeline, demanding its shutdowns over concerns of pollution and harm to the quality of life to the majority-POC constituency of the neighborhoods of the area. Construction for the day was shut down, with the project moving forward despite the mayor of New York, Bill DeBlasio, expressing his opposition to the pipeline but not revoking the construction license.
Hundreds of German anarchists protested in Leipzig on 13.12, the famous numeric version of ACAB, against police, naming them as fascists in uniform. Riot police quickly gathered and cracked down on the protest, arresting at least a dozen before the rest dispersed.
