Dozens of workers from the Turkish supermarket chain Migros went on strike at the Kadıköy Khalkedon Square store in Istanbul after several were fired for being union members; strikers demanded higher pay and better working conditions, including additional personal protective equipment (PPE). Police arrived on the scene, attempting to intimidate the workers, but ultimately failed to halt the strike.
Via Meydan Gazetesi
Hundreds of protesters in Osorno took to the streets on International Women’s Day against the government’s incompetence in stopping femicides as well as to demand safe and free abortions in all of Chile.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens gathered in Mercouri Square and marched in the neighborhood of Petralona against state brutality under the guise of enforcing coronavirus restrictions, with police repression seen justified by COVID against protests and civilians alike.
Students at the University of Panteion dropped a banner demanding the removal of new fences as well as the halting of the plan to bring back police into colleges & universities. The banner reads, “We left a university full of misery, don’t make us come back to a university full of pigs – No tolerance for repression! Autonomous Initiative of Panteion”
Hundreds of bikers gathered at the Brasil neighborhood of Santiago to demand the resignation of Chilean president Sebastian Piñera, blockading the area […]
