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Former Manchester United and Ireland captain Roy Keane warned after Sunday s fan protests against the owners of the football club, the Glazer family, that this was just the start” of their campaign.
Over the weekend, these weren’t the only protests happening, nor were they just related to football. There were rallies in Colombia, France, Spain, the UK and Germany – some of these were timed for May Day or Labour Day. Taken together with previous protests, going back at least to last summer’s Black Lives Matter rallies, it shows that people are more ready than ever to take to the streets to call for change when they believe that their interests have been undermined.
Pressure Mounts On Colombia As Protests Begin Second Week By Lina VANEGAS
05/06/21 AT 1:35 AM
Thousands of demonstrators poured onto Colombia s streets Wednesday, the eighth straight day of protests despite clashes that have left at least 24 dead and hundreds wounded.
Students, unions, indigenous people and other groups assembled in the capital Bogota as well as the cities of Medellin in the northwest and Cali in the southwest. Officers inspect damage caused by demonstrators at a police station in Bogota on May 5, 2021 Photo: AFP / Juan BARRETO
Their frustration was initially triggered by a proposed tax reform since withdrawn. But the demonstrations have become freighted with anger over the government s policies on health, education and inequality, as well as the violent repression by security forces.
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Fresh protests called in Colombia after 19 die
HIGHLY CRITICIZED BILL: The government on Sunday ordered that the tax reform proposal be withdrawn from Congress, but rallies continued across the nation
AFP, BOGOTA
Protesters in Colombia on Monday called for a new mass rally after 19 people died and more than 800 were wounded in clashes during five days of demonstrations against a proposed government tax reform.
The office of Colombia’s human rights ombudsman said that 18 civilians and a police officer died in violence during the protests that began throughout the nation on Wednesday last week, while 846 people, including 306 civilians, were injured.