Protesters took to the streets in Washington D.C. to abolish ICE, led by nurses and immigrants who raised attention to the plight of undocumented refugees at the border and in ICE detention centers. After the march, speeches were given by nurses who spoke about the dangers and suffering of unwanted medical procedures on undocumented women, before dispersing for a later FTP march.
Around 150 protesters took to the streets of Portland’s Pearl District to demand the abolition of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, a widely hated agency in the United States due to its job of carrying out deportations. The local USCIS office was covered in graffiti, and a police car was smashed in before law enforcement arrived on the scene, arresting 2 people and attacking a journalist.
Anarchists in Berlin protested inside the offices of broadcaster Deutsche Welle, demanding that the German media group cover the ongoing Koufontinas hunger strike which has been mostly ignored by media groups outside of Greece.
Hundreds of German anarchists protested in Leipzig on 13.12, the famous numeric version of ACAB, against police, naming them as fascists in uniform. Riot police quickly gathered and cracked down on the protest, arresting at least a dozen before the rest dispersed.
Anarchists in Montevideo, Uruguay, launched an attack against a police station with Molotov cocktails, starting a fire that permanently damaged the front of the police center.
