Trade unions and Marxist-Leninist organizations including CONUSI and SUNTRAC took to the streets across Panamá for the reactivation of employment contracts and the removal of deregulating and anti-labor laws such as Decree 830. Roads were shut down across the country, with over 40,000 workers going on strike in dozens of cities.
Protesters in Antofagasta returned to the streets on the birthday of Piñera, the widely hated President of Chile, demanding his immediate resignation. The march went through Bonilla in the city, with heavy police repression almost immediately occurring. Protesters then returned in the hundreds for the night march, which was not attacked by police.
Anarchists in Volos dropped a banner in solidarity with the imprisoned comrade Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike to demand the release of all non-felon prisoners and decontamination of prisons across Greece.
Over 100 protesters returned to the streets of Patras for a 3rd consecutive day in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of his request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens where he will again be able to see visitors.
Dozens of protesters continued demonstrations in St. Paul after the nonfatal shooting of a black man by 4 police officers, stating that other methods of de-escalation should have been used. Demonstrators marched to the still-barricaded St. Paul Police Department headquarters, with speakers including Soren Stevenson who lost an eye after being shot with a rubber bullet by Minneapolis PD.
