Unionists and anarchists performed a banner drop across from Brooklyn Housing Court, calling for coordinated rent strikes and the end of not only evictions, but also rent during the COVID pandemic. The banner stayed for hours, and was dropped by member of TheBaseBK, a Brooklyn anarchist group.
Workers from the CMR Falabella bank in Arica went on strike, joining the Paro Nacional currently ongoing in Chile. The reasons for the strike included a salary cut, an increased workload, and a loss of benefits. The strike has gained support among customers due to the transnational nature of the company, which is not approved of in the country.
Around 1000 protesters in Thessaloniki marched on International Women’s Day starting from the Statue of Venizelos, demanding an end to patriarchal violence and oppression during a #MeToo wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment against top officials in the Greek government.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Pereira for a 4th day of demonstrations in Colombia in opposition to tax hikes on basic goods and services as well as the privatization of healthcare. Police attacked the largely peaceful demonstration, resulting in clashes that occurred throughout the night in the city’s commercial center.
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.
