Protesters in Malmö, Sweden, dropped a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Hundreds of protesters in the town of Facatativá, north of the capital city of Bogota, took to the streets against neoliberalism and the Tributary Reform, which would increase taxes on basic goods and services such as utility bills including water, electricity, and internet.
Protesters at the 1492 Land Back Lane camp clashed with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), with multiple roads blockaded and barricades set up in Caledonia, near the city of Ontario itself. Multiple protesters were injured and arrested, and courts ruled that setting up barricades is a punishable offence upon which charges can be mounted.
About 50 protesters in Portland turned out against the police state in the city, calling for the abolition of police. Protesters set bonfires and clashed with police, with several demonstrators injured and arrested.
Dozens in Thessaloniki gathered to oppose the Greek government’s ban on protests, stating that the science shows that demonstrations do not cause an increase in coronavirus cases and simply exacerbate the extent of police repression.
