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.
Dozens of protesters in St. Paul marched on the Minnesota State Capitol demanding justice for George Floyd and all stolen lives, including Dolal Idd, a Somali-American killed by police less than a mile away from where Floyd was suffocated by officer Derek Chauvin, facing charges of murder.
Thousands of protesters in Manizales gathered on the 4th day of demonstrations against the privatization of hospitals and the increase in taxes on basic goods and services in Colombia. Protesters knocked down the status of conservative fascist politician Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, before being attacked and tear-gassed by police, thinning out the crowd and starting clashes across the city.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portland as part of a demonstration on International Workers’ Day, demanding the abolition of ICE, an agency dedicated to the deportation of undocumented migrants. Demonstrators reassembled in the night, breaking several windows of large corporate stores and other buildings.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets for a 3rd consecutive day in Elizabeth City to demand justice for Andrew Brown, an unarmed Black man shot in the back of the head and murdered by several police officers, who were using assault rifles.
