Protesters in Portland gathered outside of the ICE facility in the city with shields in black bloc, which were later proven to be handy when police opened fire with pepper balls and rubber bullets. Few protesters were arrested, and the unshielded were injured by pepper balls.
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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.
Dozens of protesters gathered in a suburb of Minneapolis after the death of Dolal Idd, a 23-year-old son of Somali immigrants shot in a parking lot for possessing a gun. Despite being small in number, the protest occupied Hopkins Crossroads and shut down most access to the West Metro for an extended period of time.
Protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets and burned barricades to demand the abolition of law enforcement in Chile and the release of all political prisoners imprisoned during the social uprising that began in 2019.
A teachers’ union in Paris marched in solidarity with high school students who had occupied their campuses in the morning, to demand better health measures and protocols to be put in place. Students clashed with police at several schools, with more than a dozen arrests occurring.