Protesters in Bologna gathered at the local Greek embassy in solidarity with former 17N member Dimitris Koufontinas, who is on hunger strike to demand a transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens where he would get access to better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
Anarchists in Ankara University took to the streets with an attendance of ~40 people against the 39th university of the Council of Higher Education (Yükseköğretim Kurulu), or YÖK for short. It has been widely criticized for presenting an educational program which presents the Turkish state in an extremely favorable manner.
Dozens of protesters were attacked by police in Patras during a demonstration in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontina, an incarcerated former member of the November 17 revolutionary group. He entered a hunger strike on January 8th demanding a transfer to a lower-security Athenian prison, with pan-Hellenic protests organized across the country to support his demands.
Around 250 anarchists and communists in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin marched in protest of the eviction of a houseless camp in Rummelsburg Lake, demanding the restoration of the stolen property of the houseless and the opening back up of the lake’s waterfront to tents.
Dozens of protesters in Elizabeth City took to the streets for an 11th day to demand justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man killed by police with assault rifles. Unlike previous days, police did not directly attack the demonstration, and no arrests occurred.
