Health workers in a CESFAM (Family health centers) went on strike against the budget adjusting of health funds by the Piñera government, the breach of government contracts, and against the isolation of political prisoners of the national uprising. They are joining the national strike that has now gripped the country.
Around 100 students in Rethymno protested against police repression in Greek universities enabled by the passing of a law by the Ministry of Education, which allowed police to re-enter universities for the first extended period since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the central Chilean city of Pudahuel south of Santiago, on the 2nd consecutive day of demonstrations in remembrance of Neco Moras and Ariel Moreno, victims of police brutality during a football match on the 28th-29th of January in 2020.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the small rural town of Acacías, in the Meta department/province, to protest against the privatization of healthcare and police violence in Colombia amid a general strike. Demonstrators set fire to the town hall, following intense police interventions in the area.
Around 150 protesters gathered in the Evanston college town in Chicago to demand the abolition of university police at Northwestern University and the surrounding residence in which its students inhabit. Around 75 heavily armed police units arrived at the peaceful demonstration, appearing as an occupying army but making no arrests.
