As the French government enacts new austerity measures in the midst of quarantine and the coronavirus pandemic, people turned out en masse to demonstrate these policies. Police responded with additional brutality, although they were rapidly pushed back by a crowd far larger than theirs. As the French government enacts new austerity measures in the midst of quarantine and the coronavirus […]
Daily Archives: September 12, 2020
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The protests in Colombia have broadened to a national appeal, and have become more organized. 14 people have been killed so far, and the injury toll has increased above 400. Protesters have burned down over 56 police stations, and many of them have been converted into People's Libraries and community centers.
On 9/11, Chile commemorated its own tragedy, in which an American-backed coup killed hundreds in a single day and resulted in the dictator Augusto Pinochet being put in power for decades in a violent overthrow of a democratically elected leftist government of Salvador Allende.