Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Santiago neighborhood of Puente Alto, burning barricades and blocking roads on International Women’s Day against government incompetence in stopping femicides as well as to demand access to safe and free abortions in Chile.
Hundreds of protesters in Newcastle took to the streets against a law passed in Great Britain which would enable police to gain even more powers to crack down on dissent against the government as well as greatly restrict the right to protest in England.
Hundreds of protesters in the Champ Mars neighborhood of Port-au-Prince clashed with police the day preluding massive planned demonstrations against the Haitian “president” Jovenel Moise, seen by many as a dictator propped up by the United States and other western imperialist powers.
Workers in the Tolpán Wind Farm (Parque Eolico Tolpán), of the Acciona enterprise, near Concepción, went on strike for better working conditions and demanding more frequent paychecks. They set up barricades on the road, joining the general strike that began in the country.
Around 100 protesters in Patras gathered at Agia Sofia Square and then participated in a neighborhood march against police repression, seen often after demonstrations were attacked in Athens, Nea Smyrni, and Thessaloniki in recent days.
