Dozens of protesters marched in Santiago to demand that the government halt pension cuts as well as pay them out to elderly people who are also houseless, who have been widely excluded from receiving social benefits. Demonstrators also attacked the state policy of handing out the job of pensions to life insurance companies, which are widely viewed in Chile as negligent.
Thousands of protesters in Dearborn took to the streets in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, demanding the immediate end of US support for Israel, a state internationally designated of carrying out apartheid policies against the Arab population under its control.
Dozens of protesters gathered at a courthouse in Patras in solidarity with 9 comrades arrested during the occupation of the SW Achaia Offices, marching through the city waving a banner demanding the acceptance of N17 hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas’ demands, including his transfer to Korydallos Prison in Athens where he can access better medical treatment and see visitors.
Hundreds of German anarchists protested in Leipzig on 13.12, the famous numeric version of ACAB, against police, naming them as fascists in uniform. Riot police quickly gathered and cracked down on the protest, arresting at least a dozen before the rest dispersed.
Lebanese protesters blocked the Bab al-Tabbaneh road in Tripoli in response to a collapse in living conditions and mass arrests of demonstrators during the uprising of late January against quarantine without a stimulus with which the people could survive.
