Protesters in Larissa gathered in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, which began on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Athens Korydallos prison which would give him access to better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
Dozens of protesters in Agrinio returned to the streets in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, gathering at Dimadi Square before marching to the city center with a heavy police presence that confronted but did not attack demonstrators.
Dozens of protesters in Portland gathered at the Portland Police Association building in the city’s north, torching part of the building and burning the door. After riot police arrived on the scene, failing to make any arrests, demonstrators traveled to the ICE facility, also setting fires at the site before dispersing.
Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
Dozens of antifascists gathered for a Smash Fascism protest in Olympia, the Washington state capitol, in which slightly larger amounts of and far more aggressive Proud Boys & Back the Blue supporters gathered to attack them. Brawls with both sides using pepper spray quickly broke out. Shots were fired by a Proud Boy, with a protester injured by the bullet.
