Around 50 anarchists gathered in Thessaloniki to demand the acceptance of requests of N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on 8 January to be moved to the Korydallos prison in Athens. November 17 was a revolutionary socialist organization in 20th-century Greece that carried out attacks on American, British, and military targets, before being disbanded in early 2000.
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Saad Hariri was overthrown by protesters in late 2019, but has been re-inaugurated to replace the government that resigned after the explosion. His supporters burned down the Revolution Fist monument in the center of Beirut, at the center of both the 2019 and 2020 protests.
Hundreds of protesters in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli returned to the streets for a 2nd day of demonstrations against a curfew and lockdown enacted without any stimulus, which has led to many people working illegally. The military of Lebanon arrived on the scene after a militia’s headquarters were attacked, arresting several youths who did not disperse but rather regrouped around areas devoid of law enforcement.
The friends, family, and allies of Bastián Campos, a political prisoner sentenced on the 25th of November 2019, gathered at the Plaza Colón in Antofagasta to demand his release along with the mothers of several other political prisoners in the city.
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.
