Thousands of unionized health workers and protesters in Santiago marched from Plaza Dignidad through the Alameda to the presidential palace to demand a larger public health budget and the resignation of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, during daily protests that have been dubbed the Chilenazo.
200 protesters marched on Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s house from 6th & Irving, demanding he rejects offers of becoming Secretary of Transportation under President-elect Joe Biden. Demonstrations continue as Biden comes close to picking his cabinet, with a name expected in a few days.
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Tunis on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of left-wing political figure Chokri Belaid, demanding the end of police in Tunisia and the release of over 1000 protesters and youth arrested since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid-January.
German anarchists protested in solidarity with 4 arrested anarchists in Belarus (Ihar Alinewitsch, Dmitri Dubowskij, Dmitri Rezanowitsch and Sergei Romanov), facing trial for “terrorist activities” and “illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives”, being held in Minsk along with many other anarchists detained for various charges.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Center of Justice in Santiago in support of Mauricio Cheque, a Mapuche political prisoner of the social uprising in Chile who was held in prison for over a year without trial, who faced a hearing on the 29th. Demonstrators banged on concrete poles to make noise in support of Cheuque and hanged banners on the walls demanding his release.
