Demonstrators across North Brooklyn dropped banners against the NBK Pipeline, against which there was more significant resistance in October and early November. The pipeline passes through many black-majority neighborhoods and is projected to cause gentrification and pollution of North Brooklyn at the same time.
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.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Portland the day after the police murder of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, demanding the immediate prosecution of Officer Katie Potter. Demonstrators clashed with police at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office, but no arrests were made. Police bullrushed the crowd and shot tear gas, in response to which protesters launched fireworks.
Dozens of servers, baristas, and other service workers blocked Highway 85 in Bogota to demand subsidies for their new unemployment from the Colombian government, requesting negotiations with the government for either a reopening of such spaces or a stimulus to keep workers on their feet. ESMAD (riot police units) attacked the demonstrators, beating several of them and deploying tear gas.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Bergen County Jail on Christmas Day, in solidarity with ICE detainees at the prison in New Jersey. Demonstrators made noise to let the detainees know of their presence and were promptly threatened with arrest by police for standing too close to the perimeter.
