Mapuche indigenous militants placed barricades on the Cunco-Huichahue Route in the Araucania region in opposition of the militarization of Wallmapu, the traditional homeland of Chile’s indigenous people.
Demonstrators in Seattle gathered in protest of the sweep of Cal Anderson Park by police, attempting to stop the department from destroying the property of the unhoused. Police responded with brutality, causing several injuries and arresting a total of 21 people. Most of the belongings of the unhoused people of the park were seen thrown in dumpsters.
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.
Health workers in a Curicó hospital joined the Chilean general strike, demonstrating against the Piñera administration, demanding more funds for a bigger salary and more effective containment of COVID-19, and the release of all political prisoners during the national uprising.
Protesters in North Brooklyn took to the streets to halt construction of a fracked gas pipeline that would run through the neighborhoods […]
