Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Seattle hours after Biden was inaugurated, demanding the abolition of ICE in a direct action march of targeted destruction against companies that work with those who carry out deportations. Starbucks, a notorious pro-police company, and Amazon were both targeted during the demonstration before police showed up and brutally arrested a few people.
Hundreds of feminists in the Teresa Flores collective gathered along Vespucio Avenue in La Florida, Santiago, to protest against the increase of femicides in 2020 in Chile as opposed to in 2019, calling on the state to take action.
Around 200 anarchists in Athens gathered at Exarcheion Square and marched afterward in support of anarchist political prisoner Vangelis Stathopoulos, kept in pre-trial detention for over 18 months without any conviction of crimes supposedly committed.
Clashes continued between Chilean government forces and indigenous insurgents in the region of Araucania, with Mapuche groups reclaiming ancestral land and sabotaging assets of extractivist companies contributing to deforestation.
Demonstrators gathered at Nikaia, a neighborhood in southwest Athens, to protest against police repression and brutality in neighborhoods and unemployment for which a stimulus has not been provided during the COVID pandemic.
