50 Portland protesters gathered at Laurelhurst Park, a homeless camp, to demonstrate against a planned sweep for that day. Many say that as the winter has set in, the consequences for evicting the houseless at this time could be deadly. The Portland Police Bureau arrived later in the day to announce that the sweep would not happen on the 10th as intended; protesters then began to organize and serve free hot meals to those living in the encampment.
About 150 protesters gathered in front of the ICE facility in Portland to demand the abolition of the agency created in 2002, whose dismantling would legally be within Biden’s direct jurisdiction. DHS & Portland Police attacked the demonstration, using incredibly toxic amounts of the possibly carcinogenic HC tear gas, and making targeted arrests of medics and press.
Rioters in Leipzig, Germany, burned several military vehicles for New Year’s, during part of the traditional car-torching every January 1st that results in over 1,000 burnt vehicles every year.
Hundreds of protesters across Lebanon gathered to protest the Central Bank’s mishandling of hyperinflation and soaring gas prices in the country. Demonstrators blocked off roads, placing barricades, and burning tires to pressure the Lebanese government to act with competence on the problem.
Protesters occupied the construction site of the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline, deemed racist as it was routed to go through black-majority […]
