Hundreds of protesters gathered in Montevideo to demand increased funding for public education for better working conditions and salaries for professors. The demonstration came as the ruling liberal National Party made budget cuts to education, as part of a wider neoliberal campaign to privatize elements of the public sector.
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Hundreds of protesters in Santiago took to the streets for a round of demonstrations to demand the release of all detainees of the 18th of October Uprising, which spurred on nearly 1.5 years of protests in Chile against right-wing and neoliberal policies. Police reacted brutally to the demonstration, sending tanks and water cannons against the crowd.
Dozens of protesters in Athens marched on the American Embassy to Greece in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of N17 on hunger strike since the 8th of January demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, which would give him adequate medical care and the ability to see visitors.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Center of Justice in Santiago in support of Mauricio Cheque, a Mapuche political prisoner of the social uprising in Chile who was held in prison for over a year without trial, who faced a hearing on the 29th. Demonstrators banged on concrete poles to make noise in support of Cheuque and hanged banners on the walls demanding his release.
Over 5,000 protesters gathered to pay homage at the funeral of Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda, a leftist Mapuche activist known for continuing the legacy of her 3 sons murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile during the 1980s. Clashes with police and looting occurred along the caravan’s route, though the funeral itself occurred without incidents.