Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the town of Facatativa, opposing the privatization of healthcare and police violence during a 5th day of demonstrations in Colombia. Police appeared to first join the protesters as a trap, and then tear-gassed and attacked the crowd violently.
Thousands of students in Thessaloniki returned to the streets for a demonstration decrying the Ministry of Education, which passed a bill allowing the creation of a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Protesters at Salvador Allende Avenue in Antofagasta burned barricades and raised banners to demand the release of all imprisoned protesters of Chile’s social uprising and the abolition of Carabineros, the country’s national police force.
Around 400 protesters marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike in Patras, demanding that the Greek government immediately accept the former 17 November member’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Hundreds of protesters in Porto Alegre took to the streets in opposition to the policies of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, demanding more […]
