Hundreds of protesters marched in Athens in support of free speech and assembly on university campuses, which has been placed under threat by the possibility of police being restored to universities for the first time since 1975. Police followed the protesting students into a park with small children, forcing everyone out of the area in riot gear.
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Indigenous activists near Friere, a town in the Araucanía region of Chile, sabotaged deforestation machinery in ancestral Mapuche land, setting fire to various cranes and other vehicles.
Protesters across Chile took to the streets calling for the freedom of political prisoners that have been put in jail by the state, some since the start of the October Rebellion, from Valparaiso to Santiago. Many banner drops also occurred in smaller cities, that would have had a smaller protest population.
Greek anarchists in Patras dropped a banner in remembrance of Costas Stamatis, a comrade who was originally from Agrinio who died at the age of 50 a few days before and went by the nickname “Metalika”.
Dozens of barricades went up at distinct points across Santiago on the Day of the Youth Combatant, in which 2 anti-government activists and brothers were murdered by the military dictatorship. Demonstrators set fires and blocked roads across the capital city in their honor.
