Hundreds of protesters in Patras answered the call to a national mobilization in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching across the city carrying banners in support of the former 17 November member and demanding his return to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Via radiofragmata, Athens Indymedia, & Δυσήνιος Ίππος
Hundreds of protesters in Panama took to the streets on May Day, demanding an improvement of workers’ rights and labor standards in the Central American country. Several organizations protested at various sites across the nation, blocking key roads to cause as much disruption as possible.
Student protesters in Santiago at the University of Chile metro dropped a banner calling for the end of for-profit education as well as standardized testing, well-known to keep down students with less wealth. Students in Revolt Chile stated that such actions would continue, unless actions were taken to mend the broken education of the country.
Following brutal police repression in Athens during a protest in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, members of the Anarchist Political Organization and hundreds more gathered at Syntagma Square against state brutality & in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas.
Thousands of protesters in Santiago gathered for a day of national mobilization to demand amnesty for all political prisoners and the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera. Carabinero riot police attacked the demonstrations with excessive force, but failed to properly disperse the protesters who were marching in multiple separate locations and methods, both on foot and on bike.
