Protesters in North Brooklyn against the pipeline gathered in the dozens, demonstrating against a fracked gas pipeline that would begin to go through poor and majority-black neighborhoods. The NBP has been long delayed by protesters who sit-in and halt construction at the site almost every day.
Protests sparked in the central Somalian town of Galkayo amid anger over missing children; they were allegedly sent to the city of Asmara in Eritrea for military training, then deployed to Ethiopia and killed in the war and genocide against the northern breakaway province of Tigray. Police responded by opening fire into the crowd, causing numerous injuries but no reported deaths.
Dozens of antifascists in Portland gathered at Director Park for a march against police, first throwing snowballs at each other and police cruisers and officers that surrounded the demonstration. As the march moved through town, smashing windows, the crowd pushed police all the way back into the precinct.
Greek anarchists in Patras dropped banners on the anniversary of the assassination of Professor Nikos Temponera, a member of the Labor Anti-Imperialist Front murdered by the youth wing of the liberal-conservative New Democracy party in 1991 during a street fight.
Dozens of protesters in Patras gathered at Georgiou Square in solidarity with hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 militant group that carried out attacks on American, British, and military assets in Greece; Koufontinas entered a hunger strike on 8 January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
