Anarchists and antifascist allies demonstrated outside of the Democratic Party of Oregon, writing ‘SHAME’ and the Three Arrows symbol on the front of the building. The DPO has been widely criticized for being extremely resistant to any police reform in Portland. Its party officials have also federally deputized the police so that they can bring extremely serious charges against protesters and go through Trump’s Justice Department.
100 protesters gathered in Minneapolis for a New Year’s noise demo outside of prisons, following suit with dozens of other cities across the world. Confrontations with police occurred, with 21 people arrested and 12 booked at the protest.
Hundreds of protesters in Sudan took to the streets on the anniversary of the end of the Khartoum Massacre in 2019, in which police and the military killed over 128 protesters and injured thousands during a sit-in at the nation’s capital. On the anniversary, demonstrators lit tires and blocked roads to demand the fulfillment of concessions demanded from the new government.
Hundreds of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine, demanding the immediate end for US support to the internationally designated apartheid state of Israel. Demonstrators took part in a national wave of support for the Palestinian cause following an Israeli attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Greek anarchists in Kavala dropped a banner at Faliro Park, in solidarity with imprisoned comrade Dimitris Koufontinas, demanding immediate decontamination of prisons and release of all nonfelons, under a campaign of Inmate Lives Matter.
