A few dozen Chileans gathered at Plaza Dignidad in Santiago for the New Year, protesting against Piñera and for amnesty for all political prisoners. Demonstrators waving the Mapuche flag were immediately attacked by Carabineros, who used water cannons against a tiny demonstration of about 25-30 people.
Credits to Cristian Hugo García & PiensaPrensa.
Hundreds of protesters in Valencia gathered on the 3rd day of demonstrations across Spain to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy. Police brutally attacked the march, kettling and beating the crowd, which resulted in a high amount of arrests.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens on International Women’s Day, singing chants and holding banners against patriarchy, the state, and capitalism, demanding more empowerment for women in Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean, and worldwide.
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.
Sporadic protests occurred across Tunisia, centered around Sbeitla, Sidi Bouzid, and Tunis. Demonstrators in a town near Sidi Bouzid placed barricades and protested to demand a betterment of living conditions, clashing with police. In Sbeitla, near the city of Kasserine, youth clashed with police who deployed tear gas in the streets, dispersing the crowd. Family members of arrested protesters & activists demonstrated in Tunis, condemning the degeneration of the Arab Spring revolution and calling for the downfall of the regime.
