Hundreds of protesters in Panama took to the streets on May Day, demanding an improvement of workers’ rights and labor standards in the Central American country. Several organizations protested at various sites across the nation, blocking key roads to cause as much disruption as possible.
The 31 day-long strike continues at the Total-owned Grandpuits oil refinery, in which 700 jobs are threatened of being removed by Total under the excuse of fighting climate change. These company claims have been challenged by the construction of a 1500km-long pipeline in Uganda, which has been accused of being built under terrible human right conditions.
Hundreds of Chileans and Colombians in Santiago took to the streets in support of the national strike and uprising against neoliberalism and police violence in Colombia, met with brutal repression by state security forces under the leadership of Ivan Duque. Police harassed and dispersed the crowd with a water cannon after its arrival to the National Tourism Service.
Hundreds of Yellow Vests gathered in what would be dubbed as ‘Rainbow Bloc’ at the Council of State in solidarity with protesters arrested during the March of Liberties demonstration against the global security law in the previous week. Protesters were blocked from leaving the area by CRS riot police before being allowed through to the l’Amiral de Coligny street. The police then kettled the crowd for 40 minutes, causing many complaints before slowly letting protesters disperse.
Hundreds of protesters in Washington D.C. took to the streets to demand justice for Daunte Wright, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man murdered in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. Police attacked the demonstration as it was ending, making several arrests as the rest of the crowd dispersed.
