Dozens of McDonald’s workers in Durham, North Carolina went on strike in response to a serious COVID outbreak at the facility, as well as a refusal to provide a $15 hourly wage for all of its workers. Strikers circled the restaurant in question for hours and will continue to do so until their demands for $15 per hour and more personal protective equipment are met.
Student anarchists dropped banners in the Athens University of Economics and Business (ASOEE) and in the Athens Polytechnic University, as well as tagging graffiti in the neighborhood of Zografou in solidarity with the N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas and to demand that police stay out of university campuses across Greece, a measure recently taken by the right-wing government to “end lawlessness”.
Thousands of protesters converged on Paris for the 4th week of demonstrations against the Global Security Law forbidding the filming of police. The state response was heavy-handed, with an immediate usage of water cannons and other crowd control munitions against protesters, leading to at least 10 arrests.
Teachers’ and doctors’ unions held a protest in Korai Square, Athens, and were surrounded by police forces seemingly fearing a riot breaking out by the hands of educators and medical workers. Demonstrators were then harassed while leaving, but no actual confrontations nor arrests occurred.
Thousands of protesters descended on Plaza Dignidad and the Presidential Palace in Santiago on a day of national mobilization against the right-wing presidency of Sebastian Piñera, as part of the Estallido Social (Social Outbreak) that has gripped Chile since the 18th of October in 2019. Police responded with heavy repression, using water cannons & tear gas, but ultimately failed to quell the demonstration.
