Dozens of protesters gathered at the Canadian capital of Ottowa to protest against the Ethiopian & Eritrean war and genocide of the separatist Tigray people, with over 55,000 refugees in the conflict. Demonstrators called on the UN to quickly halt the war, before any further massacres of the Tigrinya people occurred.
Anarchists in Athens dropped banners in solidarity with November 17 political prisoner D. Koufontina, who went on a hunger strike starting on the 8th of January demanding that he be transferred to the Korydallos prison of Athens, after being forcibly moved from the rural prisons of Volos to the high-security Domokou facility.
Protesters in Jersey City confronted the pro-ICE lawmaker Charles DeGise, who had appeared to have gotten a restraining order against demonstrators, who faced off with police and ended up receiving 2 arrests.
A protest took place in New York, around City Hall in the intersection of Centre and Chambers. Organizers demanded justice for Jonathan Price, another black man killed by police in Wolfe City, Texas. After the first wave of protests, Price’s killer was arrested.
Around 200 protesters in Chania took to the streets for a demonstration demanding the repeal of a law passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece which would allow police to enter universities again for the first extended period since the fall of the military dictatorship after a disastrous war and student uprising in 1973-1974.
