Demonstrators in Raleigh gathered in the hundreds to protest for voting rights on Election Day, marching outside of polling stations. Over 200 youth showed up, and no clashes occurred with police during the event.
Dozens of members of PAME, the Workers’ Militant Front, protested outside of the Parliament in Athens while socially distanced and with masks, demanding a more people-oriented budget instead of continuing to push austerity in surrender to the European Union.
The Anarchist Political Organization in Athens protested outside of Parliament in Syntagma Square in solidarity with former 17 November member Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand a transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would enable him to see visitors and receive adequate medical care. Police arrived at the scene in riot gear, detaining and later releasing everyone.
Dozens of protesters gathered in the city of Chania on the island of Crete in opposition to a law proposed by the right-wing New Democracy party currently in control of the Greek government, which would restore police to universities for the first time since 1975.
Thousands of protesters in Athens marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike on International Women’s Day, demanding the immediate state acceptance of the former 17 November member’s demands to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
