Dozens of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets for a demonstration to demand the defunding of the Metropolitan Police Department, stating that healthcare and education have been defunded for too long in the United States.
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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 30 protesters gathered in Yangon in opposition to the military coup in the country, chanting slogans against the country’s army and in support of Myanmar’s civilian leader who was elected and in control of the government in the country’s first-ever democratic era.
Hundreds of anarchists and students marched on the Agio Venizelou in Thessaloniki in protest against the planned reintroduction of cops on campus, standing off with police and blockading traffic. No arrests were made, in a new development after the heavy crackdown on protests during the anniversaries of the Polytechnic Uprising and the 2008 riots.
Thousands of Tunisians returned to the streets 10 years after the Arab Spring, demanding change to the country’s endemic corruption and lack of social services to fit the needs of the people and those in renewed poverty as a result of the COVID pandemic. Despite widespread police repression with tear gas and beatings, protesters held strong in many cities across the country.
