Thousands of protesters in Ibagué took to the streets against neoliberal policy in Colombia and the Tributary Reform, which would impose new taxes on basic goods and services including utility bills. Police attacked the demonstration with water cannons, also making random arrests of demonstrators.
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Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok in a second round of mobilizations against the monarchy of Thailand and the mishandling of the pandemic by Prime Minister Prayut, a general who took office in the 2014 military coup d’état. Despite police use of rubber bullets and tear gas, the crowd, angered by previous repression on August 7th, attacked and burned police posts.
Dozens of protesters marched in the northwestern small town of Florina, demanding the repeal of a law proposed by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which would restore police to university campuses for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1975.
150 protesters in Chania gathered to oppose the new educational bill proposed by the Greek government, which would bring 1,000 police officers from a new agency onto campus to “end lawlessness and anarchy” in universities.
Anarchists gathered at the self-managed squat of Lamia (city in central Greece), dropping banners in various parts of the town condemning the government’s mismanagement of the pandemic, with ICUs in the country soon overflowing and over 100 daily deaths occurring.