In the city of Little Rock in the state of Arkansas, around the center of the United States, went on strike due to the state’s enforcement of in-person learning, which is feared to cause a spike in infections and deaths in the state among students and teachers alike.
Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Thessaloniki to protest in solidarity with Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested by the Spanish authorities and facing charges for insulting the royal family.
A group of protesters gathered at the ancient theater in Larissa and hanged a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the more humane Korydallos prison in Athens.
Over 400 protesters gathered in New York for Martin Luther King Day, marching down the Brooklyn Bridge and several other prominent sites. Peaceful demonstrators were brutally assaulted by the police, who made a total of 29 arrests by rushing the crowd and yanking people out forcefully.
