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.
Around 1,500 protesters in the Buenos Aires metropolitan city of Lomas de Zamora took to the streets demanding jobs programs, clean water for neighborhoods, and food for soup kitchens, in the midst of a crisis facing Argentina, with 42% of the population below the poverty line and a 10% unemployment rate. After clashes occurred at the municipal office, demonstrators returned to the streets in a peaceful march.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside of the Royal Thai Police Headquarters after usage of chemical water cannons on the previous day. They covered the HQ in paint, as symbolic retribution for police brutality that had previously occurred.
Hundreds of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets in solidarity with Brooklyn Center demonstrations demanding justice for Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man murdered by officer Katie Potter.
A vigil in honor of a young person who had recently passed away broke out into a riot in Swansea, Wales, in the United Kingdom, after police arrived to break up the gathering. Several cars were torched, and police cars were pelted with rocks, resulting in no arrests at the scene.
