Student protesters in Athens took to the streets demanding better pay for their teachers, and more funding for their schools. After the 2009 crisis, Greece cut the budget of almost every single program except for that of the police, which caused outrage among the people of the country.
Police in Los Angeles attacked civil rights protesters in the California city’s downtown, assaulting several activists including parents of people murdered by the same police department.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Denver at a federal prison, in solidarity with those caged inside. Lights could be seen flickering from several cells inside the facility as demonstrators made noise to let the inmates inside know that they are not alone.
Dozens of protesters returned to the streets of Hillah in the Babylon governorate, in defiance of the recent crackdown on protesters by the Iraqi government during the anti-corruption protests that began in October 2019; security forces have killed over 600 people via sheer brutality and the indiscriminate use of live ammunition for over a year as a form of crowd control.
Police in Greece attacked students occupying the Rector’s Office at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demanding the repeal of the law allowing police on university campuses. Dozens of brutal arrests were made, in response to which hundreds of demonstrators marched to the rectorate and then to the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters where the arrested students were being held.
