Demonstrators for the YPG and YPJ in Rojava took to the streets in Kobane and Qamishli against the invasion of the faction by Turkey and the Syrian National Army, demanding the withdrawal of Turkish forces from sovereign territory.
Greek anarchists in Kavala dropped a banner at Faliro Park, in solidarity with imprisoned comrade Dimitris Koufontinas, demanding immediate decontamination of prisons and release of all nonfelons, under a campaign of Inmate Lives Matter.
Protesters rioted all across West Philadelphia after the police shooting of a mentally ill man earlier in the day, with over 30 police officers injured and 91 demonstrators arrested. Many areas in the city experienced heavy-handed clashes between protesters and riot police, with cars driving through crowds in some areas. Several police cruisers were captured and burnt.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Pudahuel borough of Santiago, demanding the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera and the release of political prisoners in preparation for ‘Super Wednesday’, in which thousands anticipate a march on the presidential palace.
65 anarchists in Athens were arrested at a protest inside the Ministry of Health in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos Prison in Athens, where he could receive better medical care and access to visitors. Demonstrators called for his demands to be accepted rather than inducing the torture of force-feeding Koufontinas.
