Clashes occurred between insurgents and Chilean government forces across the indigenous region of Araucania after the killing of Mapuche chief Pablo Marchant, in a fight with police during a sabotage operation against deforestation equipment in the town of Carahue.
Hundreds of bikers took to the streets of Santiago to demand safe and free access to abortion for all women, who have had to rely on miscarriage and illegal procedures to get an abortion due to its status in Chile as illegal. Protesters cycled down the Alameda, the most famous and large road in the country, chanting anti-Piñera slogans and disrupting traffic.
Dozens of Italians gathered at the Greek consulate in Milan in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17N revolutionary group on hunger strike for nearly a month to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would give him adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Thousands of protesters in New York City took to the streets in solidarity with demonstrations in Colombia against police violence and the privatization of healthcare. Organizers called for immediate international action in response to police and military brutality and the end of government aggression against protests.
Dozens of youths in Nanterre rioted following a car accident in which police hit a young man’s car, who would later die in the hospital. Demonstrators threw fireworks at police lines, also setting fires and stretching out police resources in the Acacias district.
