Barricades were placed and burned by protesters in La Ligua on the Northern Route 5 road against the “Doña Carmen” energy project put forward by the Chilean IMELSA corporation, with the aim of installing a power plant in the town of Quebradilla.
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Demonstrators gathered in memorial of Esteban, a 15-year-old protester killed in Santiago earlier in the day, in La Pincoya, his hometown. The Carabinero police forces immediately arrived on-scene, using water cannons against the demonstration and arresting several people.
Protesters in Antofagasta returned to the streets on the birthday of Piñera, the widely hated President of Chile, demanding his immediate resignation. The march went through Bonilla in the city, with heavy police repression almost immediately occurring. Protesters then returned in the hundreds for the night march, which was not attacked by police.
Protesters took to the streets in Athens demanding the release of anarchists arrested in Galatsi, after a clash between demonstrators and police […]
Around 400 protesters in Patras marched on International Women’s Day, calling for an end to patriarchal violence, oppression, and capitalism, as the #MeToo movement gripped Greece amid dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and rape against top officials in the government.
