Portland Protest Day 145 started off with an attack on the Multnomah Democratic Party Headquarters, spray-painting political messages, and breaking several windows. Demonstrators then returned to Laurelhurst Park and were intercepted by police, with 3 arrests occurring. The protest was then dispersed, with no further confrontations happening.
Dozens of Baloch protesters in Khash overwhelmed a limited Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps presence in the area, taking over local bases and taking those inside hostage as reports of the IRGC special forces entering Sistan & Balochistan en masse began to surface.
Dozens of anarchists marched in the Athens district of Galatsi in opposition to police brutality seen in Nea Smyrni / New Smyrna, in which police attacked a young couple in a park for supposedly violating COVID restrictions and then also tear-gassed a march that occurred afterwards.
Around 100 protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November leftist urban guerilla, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison where he will be able to see his family once again.
Protesters in the Greek coastal town of Loutraki gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
