Indigenous Kanakans gathered at a southern nickel factory owned by the Vale megacorporation based in Brazil, which the French government is working with to buy most mines. Multiple clashes ensued, with roads being blockaded and police opening fire with rubber bullets on the protesters organized under the Socialist Kanak Liberation Front.
Hundreds of protesters marched in New York on the first day of Derek Chauvin’s trial, demanding justice for the murdered George Floyd who became the catalyst for the popular uprising that grappled the United States in the summer of 2020.
Protesters in the University of Manchester gathered after a racial profiling incident that had occurred earlier, marching across campus with an attendance of around 400 demonstrators, which followed the already high tensions on campus after the clashes over a lockdown fence being placed to cage students in.
Protesters in Haifa torched two motorcycles at the Kiryat Ata police station after an announcement given out that the murderer of Ethiopian Jew Salomon Taka will return to service law enforcement after a poor investigation.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Blanchardstown, a suburb of Dublin, after the police murder of George Nkencho, a mentally ill Nigerian immigrant. Demonstrators called for a criminal investigation into Nchenko’s murder by the Gardaí, and reform against racism within government services.
