Hundreds of protesters overwhelmed the national police and Carabineros at San Antonio near Valparaiso, forcing them to flee the area after they attempted to disperse the protest demanding the resignation of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera.
Dozens of demonstrators in the La Pincoya neighborhood of Santiago returned to the streets against the neoliberal police state in Chile, implemented and propped up by the right-wing president Sebastian Piñera. Police brutally cracked down on the protest, deploying water cannons and tear gas.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Justice Center in Portland for a Stop the Fascist Coup demonstration, burning the American flag and a “Police Lives Matter” flag taken in Salem during clashes on the same day. Demonstrators then roamed through downtown, smashing windows of a Starbucks, Target, and a credit union, with no arrests occurring.
Hundreds of students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki resisted a police crackdown on the rectorate’s occupation and marched against state repression, broadcasted many times following the previous invasion of the university in which dozens of arrests occurred.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portland as part of a demonstration on International Workers’ Day, demanding the abolition of ICE, an agency dedicated to the deportation of undocumented migrants. Demonstrators reassembled in the night, breaking several windows of large corporate stores and other buildings.
