Public servants have received many pay cuts due to the coronavirus pandemic, and have experienced many layoffs as well. Logistics workers for Safen Aerolog in Roissy halted work and had their pay cuts later reversed.
Dozens of protesters in El Quisco took to the streets in condemnation of the police murder of a Chilean street artist in the city of Panguipulli; the crowd gathered in front of the local police station, setting fires and throwing rocks at the building.
Protesters continue to take to the streets to turn out the vote for a national plebiscite to change the constitution that remains since Pinochet created it. Many protests and clashes occurred in Plaza Dignidad, with police using water cannons and frequently fighting with protesters.
Around 400 protesters in Patras marched on International Women’s Day, calling for an end to patriarchal violence, oppression, and capitalism, as the #MeToo movement gripped Greece amid dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and rape against top officials in the government.
Anarchists in Thessaloniki gathered in solidarity with the former 17N member Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
