Hundreds of health workers gathered at Plaza Dignidad to demand higher pay and a bonus for containing the COVID-19 pandemic, and to call for the resignation of President Piñera. Carabinero riot police arrived on the scene, violently arresting protesters and injuring dozens.
Around 100 protesters in Patras gathered at Agia Sofia Square and then participated in a neighborhood march against police repression, seen often after demonstrations were attacked in Athens, Nea Smyrni, and Thessaloniki in recent days.
2500 protesters marched in Patras against the reintroduction of police to universities in a bill proposed by Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, demanding the retraction of the law put forward by the leading conservative New Democracy Party.
Anarchists in Chile set barricades on the Maipo road in the Los Guindos neighborhood in the Santiago metropolitan region, in remembrance of Jorge Mora “Neko”, who was run over by a police car on the outskirts of the Monumental stadium during a football riot on January 28th. Demonstrators unfurled a banner demanding revenge for Neko & Ariel Moreno, who was shot and killed by police during a riot in Neko’s honor the day after his murder.
Dozens of protesters in Huesca took to the streets in solidarity with Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy.
