Dozens of hotel workers in the western Greek island of Corfu went on strike outside of the labor enlistment office, demanding an emergency payment of 600 Euros in order to survive the pay cuts that have occurred during the pandemic.
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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.
About 150 protesters marched on the ICE facility in Portland to demand the immediate abolition of the agency, which new President Biden has expressed his opposition to doing. Demonstrators were horrifically attacked with chemical weapons and munitions, including tear gas, pepper balls, TC gas (a deadlier form of tear gas and possible carcinogen), and many other forms of assault.
Thousands of students in Thessaloniki returned to the streets for a demonstration decrying the Ministry of Education, which passed a bill allowing the creation of a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Multiple protests occurred in solidarity with Nigeria and the End SARS/SWAT movement, in Houston, Portland, and Toronto. Attendance ranged from a dozen people to more than a thousand during the protests.
