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.
Anarchists in Patras protested in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas on his 33rd day of hunger striking for transfer to the Athens Korydallos prison, marching in the Agia Sofia and Tabachana road junctions and dropping leaflets displaying the demonstrators’ demands.
Student protesters in Santiago at the University of Chile metro dropped a banner calling for the end of for-profit education as well as standardized testing, well-known to keep down students with less wealth. Students in Revolt Chile stated that such actions would continue, unless actions were taken to mend the broken education of the country.
A vigil in honor of a young person who had recently passed away broke out into a riot in Swansea, Wales, in the United Kingdom, after police arrived to break up the gathering. Several cars were torched, and police cars were pelted with rocks, resulting in no arrests at the scene.
Hundreds of anticapitalist students marched in Paris to demand the reopening of universities with social distancing protocols in place in order to alleviate the psychological distress and mental disorders beginning to set in on the global population of youth, who have been forced to learn from home due to COVID.
