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 protesters took to the streets of Santiago in the peripheral southern neighborhoods of La Bandera, La Pincoya, El Barrero & José María Caro, demanding a universal basic income and an emergency housing plan for all residents of Chile.
Protesters in Zurich, Switzerland, gathered in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the old Korydallos prison in Athens, where he will once again be able to see his family.
Dozens of protesters in the La Pintana commune of Santiago gathered to protest on the Day of the Youth Combatant, placing barricades and burning a bus at the site.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece’s military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
