Indigenous Colombians took to the streets to protest the inaction by the Duque administration to combat massacres of natives by government-funded paramilitaries. They also demonstrated against the false positives crisis that severely impacted disabled indigenous people. Natives and Afro-Indigenous Colombians were a swing vote in the election, and a failure on their part to vote for Duque could lead for him to lose reelection.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across Medellin, protesting against the privatization of healthcare and police violence amid a general strike in Colombia. Unlike previous days, police did not attack the demonstrations, which remained largely peaceful.
Around 100 protesters in York marched in opposition to a bill debated and later passed in the English House of Commons, which would expand police powers in the United Kingdom and also restrict protests, with a cap on noisemaking and extended prison time for arrests at demonstrations.
30 Greek anarchists gathered outside of a prison in the Cretan city of Chania, near the rural prisons of Agyia. Demonstrators lit sparklers, launched fireworks, and chanted slogans to let those inside know that there exist people fighting for a world without jails.
Hundreds of women in Valdivia marched on International Women’s Day, condemning the incompetence of the government of Chile in stopping a rise in femicides as well as demanding safe and free abortion for all women without exceptions.
