The RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) campaign demonstrated outside of the governor’s office, demanding the release of Arthur Green, a 70-year-old man who has been in prison for 44 years. He is currently dying of end-stage renal failure in prison hospice, and protesters call it inhuman to keep him away from his family during his last days.
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.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of São Paulo in opposition to right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, demanding greater expanded access to vaccines and the end of ethnic cleansing against indigenous people in the Amazon to make way for plantations and farms.
Protesters in Belarus organized a march in Minsk that held an attendance of more than 100,000 people to precede other demonstrations later in the day. The march was held between 10 A.M. and 3 P.M., moving like water so that the police could not capture protesters. Few arrests were recorded during the march, and secret police were repulsed.
Protesters gathered in the tens of thousands in Bangkok, protesting against the monarchy and military dictatorship. Government security forces quickly gathered and […]
