Hundreds of students in the island city of Heraklion in Crete marched against a proposed bill to restore police to university campuses in Greece, participating in a national mobilization against the law.
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Lebanese demonstrators gathered at several sites across the country to decry state repression against activists and incompetence in handling the nation’s recent crisis of hyperinflation and soaring gas prices. Protesters blocked roads with flaming tires and set the entrance of the Ministry of the Economy on fire.
Dozens of students gathered at the DEMRE (Department of Evaluation, Mediation, and Educational Registration) facility in the University of Chile in Santiago for the acceptance of demands made more than a decade ago by activists, which included an end to standardized tests and universal and free access to higher education. Carabineros then arrived on the scene, arresting several and causing injuries among the crowd.
Around 150-200 protesters in Philadelphia took to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by police in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. Demonstrators blocked traffic and moved through the city center before dispersing without arrests made.
Dozens of protesters in Quilpué marched to demand the abolition of the police in Chile after the police murder of a Panguipulli street juggler and the death of another man inside a police station. Demonstrators placed barricades to block traffic and occupied the city’s main intersection, disrupting activity on a day of national mobilization.
