A student strike in Greece began following the opening of schools in Greece, leading to the occupation of over 700 schools over 35 cities and towns all across the country to create a national e-learning curriculum instead of teachers and students alike needing to go in person to learn and face infection and possible death.
Around 1500 women took to the streets of Rancagua on International Women’s Day, demanding an end to femicides as well as safe and legal abortions in Chile. Demonstrators converged on the local police station, clashing with police and lobbing objects into the building.
Dozens of protesters in Athens gathered at the headquarters of the AKTOR infrastructure company to demand justice and compensation for 3 workers who died on the job in Evia after they were struck by lightning and thrown off a tower.
Dozens of members of PAME, the Workers’ Militant Front, protested outside of the Parliament in Athens while socially distanced and with masks, demanding a more people-oriented budget instead of continuing to push austerity in surrender to the European Union.
Hundreds of Chilean public sector workers gathered outside of the former National Congress in Santiago to protest for a higher budget and raises for all employees of the government.
