Protesters demonstrated against the arrival of the Secretary of Homeland Security in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas to celebrate 400 miles of built wall. Protesters had been working with the O’Odham Anti-Border Collective, and Hispanic and indigenous elders also took part in the protest.
Women demonstrated in Diyarbakir after the murder of Melek Aslan, murdered by her brother, whose case anarchists and other activists say will not be received with a fair trial. After the protest, the government stated that they will look further into the case and make the prosecution stronger.
Dozens of students gathered at the DEMRE (Department of Evaluation, Mediation, and Educational Registration) facility in the University of Chile in Santiago for the acceptance of demands made more than a decade ago by activists, which included an end to standardized tests and universal and free access to higher education. Carabineros then arrived on the scene, arresting several and causing injuries among the crowd.
Over 3,000 people took to the streets in the capital of Canada to protest Canadian ties to Azerbaijan, as well as demanding recognition for the republic of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh. No significant clashes occurred between the demonstrators and police forces.
Greek anarchists in Athens gathered at RES in Athens in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, which began on the 8th of January to demand a transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would provide adequate medical care and access to visitors.
