Women from the United Latin America committee from the Decent Housing organization protested in the Santiago Metropolitan region, demanding that the government speed up the process of building an affordable housing project for 350 families.
Hundreds of Haitians in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, widely despised for his dictatorial grasp on power for over a decade and his dissolution of Parliament in 2019.
Anarchists in Athens threw Molotov cocktails at the town hall of Moschato in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, torching and severely damaging the registry office.
Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
Thousands of Tunisians returned to the streets 10 years after the Arab Spring, demanding change to the country’s endemic corruption and lack of social services to fit the needs of the people and those in renewed poverty as a result of the COVID pandemic. Despite widespread police repression with tear gas and beatings, protesters held strong in many cities across the country.
