Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece’s military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
Via Chris Avramidis, Telemachos Fasoulas, Land & Freedom, & Teacher Dude
Lebanese protesters blocked the Bab al-Tabbaneh road in Tripoli in response to a collapse in living conditions and mass arrests of demonstrators during the uprising of late January against quarantine without a stimulus with which the people could survive.
Women and feminist collectives took to the streets of the Techotiva neighborhood of the Kennedy district in Bogotá to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office declare a national emergency due to the drastic increase in femicides across Colombia.
About 150 protesters gathered in Tacoma following an incident the previous day in which a police cruiser ran over a crowd spectating a street racing event. Demonstrators placed burning barricades on the street, marching to a local prison to make noise for the inmates, as well as smashing windows of state institutions along the way. Police failed to kettle the demonstration, which resulted in very few arrests.
Around 1000 students in Athens marched in opposition to a law passed by the Greek Ministry of Education, which would create an independent police force within universities after a decades-long ban on such a law following a massacre of student protesters by the military junta in 1973.
