In New York City, Washington and Boston, crowds are demonstrating to protest Freddie Gray's death.
In March, 3 million or more Brazilians demonstrated to protest the Petrobras scandal and Rousseff.
In Stuttgart, where I live, people recently demonstrated to protest the government's attempts to shorten the Christmas vacation and introduce a 40-hour workweek.
Portuguese drivers blocked roads, and in Liège, Belgium, thousands of labor union members demonstrated to protest the rising cost of living as a result of higher fuel costs.
On that day between 12,000 and 50,000 women in various nations demonstrated to protest nuclear testing and to voice concern, in particular, about the hazards posed by such testing to children's health.
In Italy on Monday, thousands of government workers staged strikes and demonstrated to protest tax and pension changes that labor leaders said put an unfair burden on the working class.
They also scorned the more than 200,000 people who demonstrated in Milan in March to protest what they believed were the racist policies of the populist government.
"I think it threatens our rights to demonstrate and to protest anything the government does," demonstrator Frances Holten told the Ottawa Citizen at a march.
A group of MIT students demonstrated Wednesday to protest the presence of recruiters from the Central Intelligence Agency CIAA), which conducted employment interviews on campus that day.
Hundreds of residents in Beit Hanun demonstrated last year to protest the launching of rockets from their town by militants, though the militants who bore the brunt of the anger then were from Hamas, which is frequently at odds with Fatah.
