Chilean medical workers in Santiago marched through the Alameda, many from the Barros Luco Hospital on strike, demanding a better budget for the health sector and raises for those at the frontlines fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students in universities and high schools in Minsk went on a mass strike, with tens of thousands participating and effectively halting educational activities. Some workers also went on strike and protests took place in a few neighborhoods across Minsk.
Hundreds gathered in front of the house of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a steadily growing crowd demanding that he not be placed as Secretary of Transportation. Demonstrators made noise the entire day, then listening to organizers’ speeches and dispersing.
Over 100 protesters marched in Portland to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man murdered by a former police officer in Georgia on the 23rd of February 2020. Demonstrators sang chants against police, prisons, and capitalism, calling for the fall of the prison-industrial complex.
Around 100 protesters in Antofagasta marched to demand the release of all political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising and the end of femicides in the country. Demonstrators burned barricades and set up roadblocks, with police arriving shortly after and deploying water cannons on the small crowd.
