Protesters across Minsk, after participating in early rallies in the day, organized at least a dozen demonstrations and marches across the city against Lukashenko, numbering from a dozen people all the way to the thousands. The larger were organized by protest groups, while the smaller ones were by friend groups.
Hundreds of protesters in Santiago gathered for a demonstration demanding the release of the political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising that began in 2019, some of which have been detained for over a year. Police responded with extreme repression, arriving in the dozens with tear gas and armored vehicles, attacking street medics, and making several brutal arrests.
Dozens of protesters in Beirut clashed with police in front of the Military Courts of Lebanon, demanding the release of all demonstrators imprisoned during the Tripoli uprising that followed a collapse in living conditions and a 24-hour quarantine & ban on work in the area.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Columbus after the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Black girl by police, gathering outside of the Columbus Police Department’s headquarters and marching to and back from the Ohio Statehouse, demanding the immediate prosecution of the officer responsible.
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.
