Miners joined in on the agricultural strike and blockade of the Panamerican highway, taking several key points and reinforcing the numbers of the strikers. Hundreds of union members from the Doe Run metallurgical plant located in La Oroya blockaded the highway critical to the supply of food to the capital Lima, demanding the government turn over management of the mining complex.
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.
Hundreds of protesters in Newcastle took to the streets against a law passed in Great Britain which would enable police to gain even more powers to crack down on dissent against the government as well as greatly restrict the right to protest in England.
Around 75-100 protesters in Dallas gathered in solidarity with demonstrators in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, demanding justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by police officer Katie Potter on the 11th of April.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago returned to the streets to demand the resignation of right-wing president Sebastian Piñera and the release of all political prisoners of the social uprising that began in 2019. Demonstrators managed to occupy and burn one police vehicle, forcing out police from the area despite heavy repression continuing near Plaza Dignidad.
