Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio, took to the streets on the 29th to protest the presidential debate that would be held later that day, and the handling that both presidential candidates have slipped on for months upon months since June.
Over 400 protesters gathered in New York for Martin Luther King Day, marching down the Brooklyn Bridge and several other prominent sites. Peaceful demonstrators were brutally assaulted by the police, who made a total of 29 arrests by rushing the crowd and yanking people out forcefully.
Abolish ICE protesters gathered at the facility in Bergen County, New Jersey in solidarity with a hunger strike going on there for weeks demanding cleaner conditions; rat infestations and undrinkable water are rife at the facility. Protesters then marched through the area and blocked a road, before dispersing for the day.
Over 100 protesters took to the streets of Valparaíso to demand the release of all political prisoners of the social uprising in Chile that began in 2019. Demonstrators burned barricades and blocked roads, but were quickly met by a small army of law enforcement vehicles that shot tear gas and water cannons, in response to which the crowd threw rocks and Molotov cocktails.
After the Polish Supreme Court ruled that abortion due to fetal defects was ‘unconstitutional’, providing a cassus belli to almost completely ban the practice, women’s rights activists took to the streets in spontaneous protest across Poland. A confrontation took place in Warsaw, with unarmed protesters being beaten and pepper-sprayed by police.
