Angolan emigrants in London held a protest in Trafalgar Square in solidarity with activists in their home country fighting for employment opportunities and the right to local elections in 2021. Protesters chanted “Black Power!” and issued a condemnation to the MPLA government for persecuting demonstrators in Luanda and other cities.
Hundreds of port workers in San Antonio took to the streets to demand the government passage of a 3rd withdrawal of 10% of pension funds in effective cash for their recipients. Demonstrators set tires and barricades alight and blocked roads until the arrival of riot police, who used tear gas and chemically tainted water cannons on the crowd.
Thousands of protesters gathered at the funeral of killed protester Miran and other sites in defiance of a government crackdown on protests in Iraqi Kurdistan, with demonstrations breaking out in Kifri, Qaldze, and Rania. Hundreds of demonstrators attended the funeral of Miran, a protester killed in Kifri. The military responded by opening fire, with reports of 2 killed by their bullets.
Protesters in the Miramar neighborhood of Antofagasta took to the streets and burned barricades to demand justice for a Mapuche indigenous woman killed in a resort in the town of Panguipulli.
Hundreds of protesters in the small rural town of Santa Marta took the streets as part of the 4th day of a general strike in Colombia demanding the end of the Tributary Reform, which would increase taxes on basic goods and services, as well as the privatization of hospitals and healthcare, reverting Colombia to the American healthcare model.
