Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tunja to demand the end of neoliberal policy in Colombia as well as the repeal of the Tributary Reform, which would impose taxes on key goods and services as well as removing government aid to low-income households and workers.
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Protesters gathered in the central Greek city of Volos on the 6-month anniversary of the death of Vasilis Maggos, a 27-year-old who was mysteriously found dead one month after being brutally beaten by police at an environmentalist demonstration against burning trash. Vasilis had been left with many ribs broken until he was close to dying from asphyxiation and dehydration; police then took him to a freezer and gave him water drop by drop.
Anarchists in Volos dropped a banner in solidarity with the imprisoned comrade Dimitris Koufontinas, who entered a hunger strike to demand the release of all non-felon prisoners and decontamination of prisons across Greece.
Hundreds in Portland marched on the anniversary of the murder of Breonna Taylor, an African-American woman murdered by police in her sleep who used a no-knock warrant to break into and open fire into her house. The crowd numbered around 400, the largest seen in weeks, with street art seen across the Pacific Northwestern city.
The 31 day-long strike continues at the Total-owned Grandpuits oil refinery, in which 700 jobs are threatened of being removed by Total under the excuse of fighting climate change. These company claims have been challenged by the construction of a 1500km-long pipeline in Uganda, which has been accused of being built under terrible human right conditions.