Around 400 protesters in New York marched from Washington Square Park in opposition to anti-Asian violence beginning to spike across the country due to racism and false blame for the pandemic; demonstrators headed north on 6th Avenue at W34th before later dispersing.
Hundreds of cyclists participated in a “ciclomarcha” or bicycle march for the resignation of right-wing President Sebastian Piñera, amnesty for all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising, and a more heavy-handed response to COVID by the state.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago descended on Plaza Dignidad and clashed with police after the murder of a street artist in the city of Panguipulli for the crime of not carrying his ID. Despite being hit with water cannons, tear gas, and other chemical weapons, protesters were able to occupy the Plaza several times and hold it off from land assaults by law enforcement.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece’s military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago took to the streets to demand the resignation of the ruling right-wing government as well as the immediate release of all protesters detained during the country’s uprising, some of which have been in prison since October 2019.
