Bikers took to the streets to protest against a lack of government oversight on the protection of cyclists, who have been killed in the dozens in recent weeks. Demonstrators took Plaza Dignidad and other areas of the city including the Alameda but clashed in significant street battles with police and government forces.
Dozens of protesters gathered in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona in remembrance of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from Pakistan who was stabbed to death in 2013 on his way to work by 2 supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Despite police harassing the protesters, the march went forward and no arrests were made.
Around 1500 protesters returned to the streets of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin, demonstrating against the eviction of the Meuterei cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin.
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.
McDonalds workers in Chicago went on strike to demand a $15 minimum wage, an increase in PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and a union for all. McDonalds and its franchises have been widely criticized for their union-busting practices, which sometimes are harsher than many other multinational corporations.
