Hundreds of medical workers gathered outside of the Presidential Palace on Chilean President Sebastian Piñera’s birthday, demanding an expanded budget for the health sector to deal with the pandemic. They also demanded the resignation of Health Minister Enrique Paris, who has been deemed insufficient in his aid to contain the COVID pandemic.
West Belarusians took to the streets in what was coined a “district storm”, with many small protests going on in areas that were not normally deemed to have a culture of anti-Lukashenko sentiment. Police failed to arrive in time to put down the protests, and so the “mission” of sorts was deemed a success.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the streets of Nantes for the weekly March of Liberties, demanding the complete dissolution of the Global Security Law, which would illegalize the filming of police officers. Police deployed water cannons and tear gas, with heavy clashes occurring in front of the city prefecture, resulting in several arrests.
Hundreds of insurgents and protesters across the indigenous region of Araucania in Chile carried out sabotage actions and demonstrations against forestal machinery and exploitation of ancestral Mapuche land, demanding its immediate handing over to the original tribes and families who inhabited it, many of who still exist displaced today.
Protesters in Jersey City confronted the pro-ICE lawmaker Charles DeGise, who had appeared to have gotten a restraining order against demonstrators, who faced off with police and ended up receiving 2 arrests.
