Black Lives Matter demonstrators turned out in the hundreds to protest brutality in the local Providence Police Department, which similar to most, has suffered criticism of its handling and discrimination towards people of color and minorities. No major clashes with police occurred.
Protests in Bogota have effectively settled down with protesters holding on to ~56 CAI substations that they have occupied and beginning to […]
The graduate students of the University of Chicago enacted a strike about a week ago, to switch back to an online curriculum and stop placing the lives of the professors at risk. The University of Chicago has insofar contacted courts to complain about the strike and a lack of ‘education for undergraduates’, but the strike continues at the moment.
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.
On the 14th, Thailand banned protests from going on under the pretext of coronavirus restrictions. In response, thousands of protesters crowded 3 central areas of Bangkok, with most being unarmed and not ready to fight off a police response. Protesters were soon met by hundreds of police, who promptly began to march forward and aim water cannons at the protesters.
