Fight For 15 strikes have begun across Florida with 2 main objectives; the first being to rally support for workers and unions to pressure the Floridian government to improve union and striking laws. The 2nd, and namely more important one, is to turn out the vote to pass Amendment 2 to make the minimum wage $15.
Loyalists in Belfast gathered against the North Ireland Protocol, which created customs between North Ireland and the rest of the UK, disrupting the Loyalist drug trade. Youth hijacked and burned a bus on Lanark Way, before then clashing with Catholics at the Lanark Way peacewall, where petrol bombs, rocks, and fireworks were exchanged before police arrived to break up the conflict.
Dozens of protesters gathered for a flash demonstration in front of the house of the President of Greece in Athens in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see his family and other visitors.
Police in Athens attacked over 100 protesters at the Omonia Metro protesting in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, using batons indiscriminately and forcing them back into the metro that most of them used to flee the scene. Demonstrators promptly regrouped at the Syggrou intersection, setting fires and clashing with police.
Police in Memphis have been seen with newly developed ‘taser shields’, that are used by hitting people in the skin, which delivers them an electric shock. It appears as though the Department of Justice/National Guard has given them these.
