Demonstrators in the neighborhoods of Koukaki and Petralona in central Athens dropped banners condemning the use of a second lockdown to crack down on protests, instead demanding an expansion of funds for healthcare workers. The banner drops were organized by the Volgliamo Tutti E Per Tutti anarchist collective.
Over a thousand employees rioted at a manufacturing factory in Kolar, near Bengaluru in the state of Hyderabad, where there were allegations of underpayment and wage cuts. The office of the Wistron company was completely destroyed, which creates iPhone 7 products for Apple. Police then arrived on the scene, dispersing protesters, who continued the strike but fled the scene.
Protesters burned barricades and blocked roads at the Mar Mikhaël Church at the Medawar district of Beirut, demanding an increase in living conditions following the Beirut explosion. The military made several arrests at the site and forcefully reopened the area after detaining those present.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Center of Justice in Santiago in support of Mauricio Cheque, a Mapuche political prisoner of the social uprising in Chile who was held in prison for over a year without trial, who faced a hearing on the 29th. Demonstrators banged on concrete poles to make noise in support of Cheuque and hanged banners on the walls demanding his release.
About 250 anarchists and environmentalists gathered at the Dannenrod activist-occupied forest in Germany to block deforestation crews from carrying out their operation. The German police had often harmed activists that were protecting the forest, cutting rope and making many of them fall, sometimes sustaining injuries too.
