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.
Anarchists in Antofagasta took to the streets, blocking roads and burning barricades in solidarity with the political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising in Chile, demanding a general pardon and the immediate release of all those convicted during the social revolt of 2019 and the indigenous Mapuche struggle for sovereignty and autonomy.
Greek anarchists in the Athens port neighborhood of Piraeus marched through the borough’s university campus against police. The Puerto Negro collective, who organized the march, demanded an end to police presence in neighborhoods and universities.
Hundreds of Trump supporters at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem clashed with left-wing counterprotesters, using paintball guns, smoke bombs, and other munitions before police cleared the area, coming under fire from right-wingers who “used to back the blue”.
Dozens of protesters gathered at Georgiou Square in Patras in solidarity with the 17 November member Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would enable him to see visitors and receive adequate medical care.
