Hundreds of taxi drivers went on strike in Cúcuta, blocking roads to protest against the privatization of healthcare and police violence amid a general strike. Despite a military presence in the city, the workers remained undeterred and continued to block roads for hours.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Barranquilla, in opposition to healthcare privatization and police violence amid an ongoing general strike. Despite the demonstration remaining peaceful on the highway, police attacked, firing tear gas and injuring several participants in the crowd fleeing the chemical weapon.
Hundreds of protesters in Lansing gathered for the Michigan People’s March, marching down the Michigan Highway 99/S Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in support of Black Lives Matter, socialism, and anarchism. Demonstrators called for the fall of the prison-industrial complex, the American empire, and the abolition of ICE.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets, tagging graffiti, blocking roads, and burning barricades in solidarity with Mapuche chief Pablo Marchant, killed by police during an attack by indigenous insurgents on deforestation equipment.
Dozens of Turkish anarchists gathered in Kadıköy to protest on the anniversary of the 19 December massacre, better known as Operation “Return to Life”. The protesters were attacked by Turkish police, with 10 arrests made. Prisoners were protesting the government plan to transfer prisoners to American-style “F-type” cells holding 1-3 occupants, in response to which 10,000 soldiers violently occupied 48 prisons to end 2 months of hunger strikes by hundreds of political prisoners. At least 31 prisoners were murdered by the Turkish government, 8 others were disappeared, and 426 prisoners were wounded. 1005 prisoners were then caged in the F-type cells.
