About 30 protesters gathered outside of the SENAME (National Service for Minors) facility in San Joaquin, an area of Santiago, Chile. They demanded that all those arrested have their records cleared and be freed immediately from isolation, that they had been contained in from weeks to months under the casus belli of protecting people from COVID-19.
Anarchists in Valparaiso answered the call to national mobilization across Chile by marching against Piñera in the hundreds, clashing with Carabineros who deployed chemical weapons, including tear gas and chemically tainted water cannons. No arrests occurred, as demonstrators managed to outmaneuver the Carabineros on a ground-assault.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the streets of Nantes for the weekly March of Liberties, demanding the complete dissolution of the Global Security Law, which would illegalize the filming of police officers. Police deployed water cannons and tear gas, with heavy clashes occurring in front of the city prefecture, resulting in several arrests.
Around 250 protesters in Zurich marched on International Women’s Day, against patriarchal violence and domination as well as in solidarity with the struggles of women worldwide against femicides and oppression.
Thousands of protesters marched in several sites across Athens against police brutality and repression seen recently across Greece, with universities invaded by plainclothes law enforcement and docile civilians beaten on made-up offenses.
