About 60 student anarchists in Patras gathered at Georgiou Square to demand that the plan to reintroduce cops on college campuses be revoked, hanging a banner in the area. Police blocked the road to protesters, who eventually retreated after a standoff.
Hundreds in Santiago marched in honor of Itan and Tamara, both children being victims of gun violence in Chile, one killed by stray bullets from an unknown assailant and another by police during a gunfight. Demonstrators marched to the La Moneda presidential palace, asking why police resources were spent attacking protests instead of stopping gun violence.
Dozens of cyclists in Santiago took to the streets in solidarity with political prisoners of the uprising in Chile and against the right-wing neoliberal presidency of Sebastian Piñera. Police attacked the gathering, tear-gassing the cyclists and forcing them to flee the area.
Dozens of protesters occupied the entrance of the Ministry of Culture of Greece in Karytsi, Athens, in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas and against the state’s defense of an actor exposed as a pedophile, Dimitris Lignadis. Police swiftly arrived on the scene, arresting everyone and clearing the area.
Dozens of German anarchists and abolitionists gathered in Flensburg for a noise demo of solidarity with prisoners on New Year’s, launching fireworks and firecrackers and marching through the city.
