Dozens of McDonald’s workers in Durham, North Carolina went on strike in response to a serious COVID outbreak at the facility, as well as a refusal to provide a $15 hourly wage for all of its workers. Strikers circled the restaurant in question for hours and will continue to do so until their demands for $15 per hour and more personal protective equipment are met.
Haitians took to the streets all over Port-au-Prince in the thousands on the 17th to protest against the allegedly corrupt regime of Jovenel Moise. Demonstrators set up barricades, and clashed with police, with several dozens of injuries but no deaths.
A vigil in honor of a young person who had recently passed away broke out into a riot in Swansea, Wales, in the United Kingdom, after police arrived to break up the gathering. Several cars were torched, and police cars were pelted with rocks, resulting in no arrests at the scene.
Multiple protests occurred in solidarity with Nigeria and the End SARS/SWAT movement, in Houston, Portland, and Toronto. Attendance ranged from a dozen people to more than a thousand during the protests.
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, shutting down its entrances in order to directly delay eviction hearings during the moratorium that will last until mid-February. Around 150 eviction hearings were delayed or cancelled for the day, in a massive victory for the KC Tenants’ Union.
