Around 2000 protesters took to the streets of Thessaloniki in opposition to the management of the pandemic, with the military and police overfunded in Greece as ICU beds continue to fill up and the healthcare system becomes quickly overwhelmed due to underfunding.
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Around 125 protesters in Larissa marched against police brutality and management of the pandemic by the Greek government, which continues to overfund the military and police as the hospitals and medical system of the country become quickly overwhelmed with few ICU beds left available in Greece.
Thousands of protesters in Athens took to the streets against the government's management of the pandemic, with police and the military overfunded in Greece as COVID cases continue to rise steadily with hospitals and the medical system overwhelmed, with ICU beds near full capacity.
Dozens of bikers in Athens took to the streets following the death of a motorcyclist after being hit by the driver of Prime Minister Mitsotakis' sister, a member of Parliament belonging to the ruling conservative New Democracy party.
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.
Hundreds of protesters in the Washington D.C. neighborhood of Chinatown marched against violence targeted at Asians following a mass shooting of massage parlors that led to the deaths of 6 Asian women and 2 others. Organizers called for the decriminalization of sex work, police abolition, and the end of US and western neocolonialism in Asia.