Protesters across New York dropped banners for a wide variety of reasons, including rent cancellation, a 2nd stimulus, and the freeing of all prisoners of ICE held in cages in the city’s detention facility. There was also a #NoNBKPipeline banner dropped from the top of a building, to compensate for the lack of activity that has been going on against it.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Chania in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of his request by the government to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Dozens of workers from the Union of West Attica gathered outside of the Ministry of Labor in Athens, demanding more measures to protect the health of employees at the workplace, as well as more unemployment benefits for the jobless who cannot support themselves during the pandemic.
Protests have calmed down, although they are likely to flare back up after a massacre of protesters in Bogota on which there is currently no information. The indigenous people of Cauca in the Misak ethnicity took down a conquistador statue on the 17th as well.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in opposition to state brutality and police repression during the COVID-19 pandemic, criticizing the state measures of police crackdowns instead of giving better funding to the healthcare system in Greece.
