Many of you aren't working right now because of Columbus Day, the federal holiday that's instead being celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day in Washington, D.C.

The big picture: Roughly 10 states and 100+ U.S. cities observe some version of Indigenous Peoples Day this month.

• Native American advocates have been working since the early 1990s to get states to make the swap, the AP reports.

From today: Columbus statues in San Francisco and Providence, Rhode Island, were vandalized with red paint, CNN reports.

• "Vandals had chained a sign to the base of the statue that said 'Stop Celebrating Genocide' and spray painted the word 'Genocide' on the monument."

What they're saying:

• "It's about celebrating people instead of thinking about somebody who actually caused genocide on a population or tried to cause the genocide of an entire population," Baley Champagne, tribal citizen of the United Houma Nation, told NPR.
• "While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people — an important addition to the country’s ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American," writes historian Malinda Maynor Lowery.
• The other side: "By renaming the holiday Indigenous People’s Day, they have decided to emphasize the sorrier aspects of Western colonization and conquest of the Americas rather than its virtues," writes Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen.

A large crowd of protesters, including a man carrying an upside-down American flag, gather outside the house where Atatiana Jefferson was shot and killed by police on Saturday.

• The Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed Jefferson in her own home resigned just hours before he was set to be fired. Go deeper.

Hong Kong demonstrators wave U.S. flags during a rally in support of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

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Danish brewer Carlsberg is joining Coca-Cola, Swedish vodka maker Absolut, and makeup group L’Oreal to develop paper bottles made from sustainably sourced wood fibers, the AP reports.

• The big picture: The prototypes are part of the company’s efforts to have zero carbon emissions at its breweries and reduce by 30% the carbon footprint across its value chain by 2030.