Protesters took to the streets in Houston on the 4th to demonstrate for democracy and against the disenfranchisement of voters whose ballots arrived late. About 100 people turned out for the event, which ended without an assault by police against protesters.
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Tunis on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of left-wing political figure Chokri Belaid, demanding the end of police in Tunisia and the release of over 1000 protesters and youth arrested since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid-January.
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Paris in support of undocumented immigrants on International Migrants’ Day. The march was organized by the Gilet Noirs/Black Vests, whose aim is to fight for the regularization of the 400,000 undocumented immigrants in France.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Pereira for a 4th day of demonstrations in Colombia in opposition to tax hikes on basic goods and services as well as the privatization of healthcare. Police attacked the largely peaceful demonstration, resulting in clashes that occurred throughout the night in the city’s commercial center.
Hundreds of protesters in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center took to the streets for a third consecutive day, demanding the prosecution of the officer who murdered 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man. Police launched an exorbitant amount of munitions, firing tear gas and rubber bullets as well as crowd control grenades at the crowd.
