Hundreds of protesters gathered in Montevideo to demand increased funding for public education for better working conditions and salaries for professors. The demonstration came as the ruling liberal National Party made budget cuts to education, as part of a wider neoliberal campaign to privatize elements of the public sector.
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.
Dozens of students in Ioannina marched against police repression seen at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of a law put forward by Minister of Education Niki Kerameos which allowed police to return to universities for the first time since 1975.
Protesters in North Brooklyn against the pipeline gathered in the dozens, demonstrating against a fracked gas pipeline that would begin to go through poor and majority-black neighborhoods. The NBP has been long delayed by protesters who sit-in and halt construction at the site almost every day.
Protests in Namibia have been sparked due to government inaction against the murder of women across the country, with thousands of people taking to the streets against the lack of action by the state. Femicide has been skyrocketing in recent months, and critics say that nothing is being done to stop it.
