Dozens of workers at the Total Grandpuits refinery in France entered a 15th day of striking and attempting to halt access to the facility in protest against the company’s conversion plans, which trade unions estimate will lead to 700 layoffs.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets for a 3rd consecutive day in Elizabeth City to demand justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man shot in the back of the head and murdered by several police officers, who were using assault rifles.
Around 50 protesters in Portland gathered at the city’s local ICE facility, demanding the abolition of the agency tasked with attacking and deporting undocumented migrants, as well as demanding the dismantling of the prison-industrial complex funding it.
Youth in Vienna rioted on New Year’s, looting and damaging several businesses and setting off fireworks in the Reumannplatz. Several clashes with police occurred, but resulted in very few arrests of young people heavily armed with fireworks.
Dozens of anarchists marched in the Athens district of Galatsi in opposition to police brutality seen in Nea Smyrni / New Smyrna, in which police attacked a young couple in a park for supposedly violating COVID restrictions and then also tear-gassed a march that occurred afterwards.
