Thousands of Tunisians returned to the streets 10 years after the Arab Spring, demanding change to the country’s endemic corruption and lack of social services to fit the needs of the people and those in renewed poverty as a result of the COVID pandemic. Despite widespread police repression with tear gas and beatings, protesters held strong in many cities across the country.
Hundreds of feminists in Mexico City took to the streets after the police murder of a Guatemalan woman, refugee, and mother of two in Tulum. Demonstrators managed to take several riot shields and faced off with police at the National Palace.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Senegal after the arrest of a prominent opposition leader for allegedly politically motivated accusations of rape. The death count from police murders increased to at least 10, with hundreds of injuries from live ammunition occurring as well.
30+ anti-racists in San Francisco gathered at the city’s ICE office, smashing in windows and breaching the office to wreak havoc inside, rendering it unusable for a long time. Demonstrators answered the call for a round of Abolish ICE events around inauguration day on J20, with no arrests occurring within the group.
Thousands of protesters marched in several sites across Athens against police brutality and repression seen recently across Greece, with universities invaded by plainclothes law enforcement and docile civilians beaten on made-up offenses.
