Hundreds of health workers from the FENATS National Labor Confederation marched in Concepción for an increase of the health budget to deal with the pandemic and to demand the resignation of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera.
Street medics and their allies also marched in Santiago at the same time, marching through the Alameda to the Presidential Palace in protest of the usage of chemical water cannons.
A crowd of 40 Loyalist youth gathered in Derry in opposition to customs being set up for travel of goods between mainland Great Britain and North Ireland, disrupting the Loyalist drug trade. The crowd threw a petrol bomb and other objects at police vehicles before dispersing without any arrests made.
Hundreds of students, teachers, and allies gathered at Georgiou Square and marched across Patras to demand the end of a bill proposed by right-wing Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, widely despised in Greek progressive circles as a reactionary figure.
Hundreds of protesters at various sites across Santiago took to the streets on the anniversary of the founding of the Carabineros, Chile’s national police organization, demanding its immediate disbandment. Demonstrators set barricades on fire and blocked roads, clashing with Carabineros who arrived to clear them.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok in a second round of mobilizations against the monarchy of Thailand and the mishandling of the pandemic by Prime Minister Prayut, a general who took office in the 2014 military coup d’état. Despite police use of rubber bullets and tear gas, the crowd, angered by previous repression on August 7th, attacked and burned police posts.
