Dozens of metro workers took to the streets to demand better pay and working conditions, with subways completely cramped with commuters despite Chile’s pandemic cases reaching a peak. Demonstrators blocked roads and took the sides of metros, demanding economic justice.
Protesters in Cantabria and Catalonia rioted against new closings of businesses without a curfew, most of which were seen wearing masks. Clashes with police happened in several areas, including Santander and Barcelona.
Dozens of protesters marched in the northeastern city of Drama against police brutality, seen recently across Greece after a college student was beaten in a park and a university was invaded by plainclothes officers who took 33 people into custody.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece’s military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
Thousands of protesters in Manizales took to the streets in opposition to decades of neoliberal policies in Colombia and the Tributary Reform, which would tax basic goods and services such as utilities. Police attacked the demonstration, deploying tear gas and causing a mass dispersal of the crowd.
