Hundreds of fans of Egaleo F.C., an Athens-based football club, took to the streets at Iera Odos junction, in solidarity with antifascists persecuted by the Greek authorities and in other countries worldwide. The banner hoisted read, “The pandemic needs doctors, not cops and repression.”
Protesters took to the streets across Chile, with hundreds of thousands gathering in Plaza Dignidad and other squares. Millions celebrated the replacement of the constitution that was created by the Pinochet regime in a historic plebiscite, which gained 78% of the vote in approval of a new constitution for the Chilean people. Many clashes with the police occurred, but no arrests did.
Greek anarchists in Patras dropped banners on the anniversary of the assassination of Professor Nikos Temponera, a member of the Labor Anti-Imperialist Front murdered by the youth wing of the liberal-conservative New Democracy party in 1991 during a street fight.
Students gathered in Santiago to protest the transition test of Chilean Universities, which they say actively undermines many students in poverty. Barricades were first placed at the Alameda intersection with Los Héroes before protesters gathered at the Ministry of Education. Police responded with extreme force, attacking protesters and press, including the cameraman live on scene for CNN Chile.
Hundreds of protesters at the Gaston Berger University in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, clashed with police over insecurity and incompetence on campus after a stabbing and robbery of a student occurred without any police intervention.
