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.
Dozens of protesters across the Chilean capital city of Santiago took to the streets on International Workers’ Day, gathering at various sites, setting barricades alight, and confronting police who arrived to repress various demonstrations.
Dozens of protesters gathered at the Alameda in front of the Presidential Palace in Santiago, demanding the release of all political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising. As the Senate voted on a law deciding whether or not young political prisoners should be released, families of those jailed held up photos of detainees as young as 15 held captive by the Chilean government.
Protesters took to the streets for the 4-year anniversary of the murder of Renee Davis, an indigenous black woman. More than 200 protesters attended the demonstration, demanding justice for her and her unborn son.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to Islamophobia and a Separatism Law being proposed in the French government, which would greatly increase the powers of the state to carry out surveillance on political and religious minorities under the guise of preventing radicalization.
