Dozens of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with former 17 November member Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would be able to see visitors and receive adequate medical care.
Via Chris Avramidis
Protesters demonstrated for a second night after the police-involved killing of Karon Hylton outside of a DC precinct, with Hylton’s family attending and being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police. Protesters began to employ fireworks as a means of deterring police, with over 10 injuries from firework strikes over the night.
Members of the Squatted Community of Prosfygika protested in solidarity with Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey. Demonstrators demanded the end of isolated imprisonment for the rebel leader, who has not been allowed to have visitors during an extended period of his sentence.
Women and feminist collectives took to the streets of the Techotiva neighborhood of the Kennedy district in Bogotá to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office declare a national emergency due to the drastic increase in femicides across Colombia.
50 New Yorkers marched from the Barclays Center to the Manhattan Bridge, calling for justice for 2 victims of police brutality in Ohio, Andre Hill and Casey Goodson. Protesters called for the investigations into the police murders to be reopened, and for the officers to face accountability.
