Greek students’ and teachers’ unions blockaded the entrance of the Athens Polytechnic University, demanding the end of the plan to reintroduce police to university campuses. Blockades are expected to continue into the following days, with neither the Students’ Associations of the Athens Polytechnic or the NTUA Employees’ Union appearing to be willing to let up.
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Hundreds of insurgents and protesters across the indigenous region of Araucania in Chile carried out sabotage actions and demonstrations against forestal machinery and exploitation of ancestral Mapuche land, demanding its immediate handing over to the original tribes and families who inhabited it, many of who still exist displaced today.
Through the week of 13-20 September 2020, several activist groups belonging to the O’Odham and Kumeyaay indigenous tribes have been arrested for protesting the wall and halting construction. 2 O’Ohdham activists have been arrested on Class B misdemeanor charges, while other Kumeyaay protesters have been brutalized by police.
Thousands of protesters in Paris marched against reform of unemployment insurance, mass layoffs in the public sector, and job insecurity in France. Many massive trade unions participated in the demonstration, as did smaller organizations, demanding an immediate change in policy passed by neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron.
Around 100 protesters in Patras marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, an imprisoned former member of the 17 November leftist urban guerilla, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison where he will be able to see his family once again.
