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Dozens of members of Brazil's Kayapo indigenous community block a major trans-Amazonian road to protest against the lack of support given by Jair Bolsonaro's government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and demand that deforestation be brought to an end. IMAGES
Police are carrying out checks on the Paris ring road at the Porte de Saint-Cloud as convoys of protesters against vaccine passes inspired by similar protests in Ottawa begin to arrive in Paris with the aim of defying a prefectural ban on public demonstrations. IMAGES
People protest in Rio de Janeiro after the state tightened virus restrictions for ten days, closing non-essential services such as shops and restaurants. IMAGES
Novo Progresso, Aug 20 (EFE) .- About a hundred indigenous people from the Amazon returned Thursday to block an important highway in Brazil, this time "indefinitely," until the government responds to the deforestation, fires and the advance of the coronavirus pandemic that's devastating their territories.Just one day after allowing the flow of traffic on the federal highway BR-163, which crosses the country from north to south, members of the Kayapó ethnic group established a new blockade near the municipality of Novo Progresso, in the northern state of Pará. (Camera: ERNESTO CARICO)FOOTAGE SHOWS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AT THE ROAD BLOCKADE IN NOVO PROGRESSO, BRAZIL.
People gather in Bogota to protest President Gustavo Petro's government over health care and pension reforms. IMAGES
Hundreds of US truckers and their supporters gather in southern California for a "People's Convoy" modeled on the Canadian protests against Covid-19 restrictions, for the start of a cross-country journey to the capital, Washington, DC. IMAGES
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