Protesters in Chile on the 16th took to the streets in anticipation of the anniversary of the 2019 protests that began on the next day, the 17th of October. Clashes occurred between protesters and police, with water cannons being used, but to no use against the tens of thousands that took to the streets in Santiago.
Around 75 protesters in Portland gathered at the Justice Center for a demonstration demanding the abolition of ICE, an agency created alongside DHS in 2001 to patrol the southern border, a task marred with allegations of human rights violations and atrocities committed.
Riot police in the city of Concepción brutally cracked down on protesters who gathered after the police murder of a street artist in Panguipulli for failing to present his ID. Water cannons and tear gas were deployed as well as a contingent of Carabineros on foot, who made brutal arrests and assaults of protesters.
Anarchists in Patras hung 2 banners in a southern park and the pedestrian street of Gerokostopoulo in solidarity with inmates stuck in prisons experiencing the brutality of being in the captivity of the state in the midst of a pandemic. Demonstrators also expressed solidarity with 2 anarchists arrested in Athens during a protest outside the office of the general secretary.
Over 150 protesters marched in Ioannina in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, moving through the center of the city with a steady pulse of chants and in the almost complete absence of a police presence.
