As the French government enacts new austerity measures in the midst of quarantine and the coronavirus pandemic, people turned out en masse to demonstrate these policies. Police responded with additional brutality, although they were rapidly pushed back by a crowd far larger than theirs.
Hundreds of protesters in Osorno took to the streets on International Women’s Day against the government’s incompetence in stopping femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in all of Chile.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Valdivia against the police murder of a street artist in the city of Panguipulli for the crime of not presenting his ID, with the crowd gathering at Simón Bolívar Plaza to demand justice for the killed juggler.
Police in Athens brutally assaulted over 100 protesters demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison, where he will once again be able to see family and friends. Tear gas, flashbang grenades, and even the rare water cannons were deployed to contain a small crowd of people.
Dozens of protesters in the Santiago neighborhood of Puente Alto and the subdistrict of Bajos de Mena took to the streets on the Day of the Youth Combatant, placing and burning barricades and throwing Molotov cocktails at the 66th Police Station.
