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Reports on the protest movement during the Democratic National Convention held July 26, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. Designated protest area; Free speech zone allotted for protesters; Protest movement by the opponents of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

The article discusses the money offered on social media to organize street protests against "halting the spread of NATO and capitalist Western ways into the formerly communists lands of Eastern Europe". Topics discussed includes conflict between Russia and the West, Czech politics and foot soldiers.

BEERSHEBA, Israel -- As Israel's social protest movement spread beyond Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday tempered a promise to find ''concrete solutions'' to demonstrators' concerns with a warning that the global financial crisis precluded quick change. ''We know one thing: We want to find solutions that are economically sound,'' he said at the weekly cabinet meeting. ''For if we end up bankrupt or face economic collapse, a reality in which some of Europe's leading economies find themselves in today, we will solve neither the economic problems nor the social ones.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW -- Iron-fisted authorities in Belarus have responded to a burst of creative modes of protest by young protesters with a rather surreal innovation of their own: a law that prohibits people from standing together and doing nothing. A draft law published Friday prohibits the ''joint mass presence of citizens in a public place that has been chosen beforehand, including an outdoor space, and at a scheduled time for the purpose of a form of action or inaction that has been planned beforehand and is a form of public expression of the public or political sentiments or protest.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The government of Saudi Arabia moved swiftly to extinguish a budding protest movement of women claiming the right to drive, a campaign inspired by uprisings across the Arab world demanding new freedoms but at risk Monday of foundering. Manal al-Sharif, 32, one of the campaign organizers, was detained Sunday in the eastern city of Dammam for up to five days on charges of disturbing public order and inciting public opinion by twice driving in a bid to press her cause, said her lawyer, Adnan al-Saleh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CAIRO -- In a tearful, riveting live television interview only two hours after his release from an Egyptian prison, the Google executive Wael Ghonim acknowledged Monday that he was one of the people behind the anonymous Facebook and YouTube campaign that helped galvanize the protest that has shaken Egypt for the last two weeks. Since he disappeared on Jan. 28, Mr. Ghonim, 30, has emerged as a symbol for the protest movement's young, digital-savvy organizers. During the interview on a popular television show, he said he had been kidnapped and held blindfolded by Egyptian authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BANGKOK -- Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators blocked a major intersection in the commercial heart of the Thai capital on Friday to mark the passage of six months since a bloody military crackdown on street protests. The demonstration underlined the resilience of what is known as the Red Shirt movement in Thailand. It remains active despite efforts by a hostile military leadership to dismantle it and by the government to block access to Internet sites and other media dedicated to the protest movement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on public appearances made by President George W. Bush in which he pushed for his Social Security reform. Changing of some of his language to attempt to win over crowds; His vow to keep hammering the message home; Presentation of the President; Protests against the plan by various groups and agencies; Other visits planned across the country in an attempt to sell the idea to the public; Question which is if the President will accept a compromise on his plan.

Reports that a Manhattan judge John Cataldo ordered the city to release more than 550 protesters who had been detained without seeing a judge after being arrested at demonstrations against the Republican National Convention. How Cataldo held New York City in contempt when not al protesters were released after 60 hours and ordered a fine of $1,000 for each person still held; Triumph expressed by the throngs of protesters who were released from the Criminal Courts Building on Centre Street; Statement from Michael Cardozo of the city's corporation counsel that Cataldo was wrong not to permit the city sufficient time to process the arrestees; Lack of accountability for the delays in processing the arrested protesters by city and police officials.

Discusses how hundreds of demonstrators were arrested in New York City in their protest of President George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention. Consideration of there were clashes between protestors and police officers as a result of the civil disobedience; Detention of hundreds of protesters near ground zero and in Midtown where they were cursing at Republican delegates; Goal of the protestors to gather and descend on the convention site at Madison Square Garden; Opposition from protesters and civil liberties lawyers to the actions of police officers in their preemptive dealings with demonstrators; Protest against the company Halliburton which was holding a breakfast at the New York Hilton hotel for the Texas delegates.

Discusses the peaceful nature of the protests conducted in New York City in opposition of President George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention. How Republican leaders such as Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani praised Bush and his leadership during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; Comparison of the anti-Bush protests to the protests which occurred in the U.S. during the Vietnam War; Claims from protesters that Bush is a warmonger, a liar, and a criminal; Focus of the media on the marches and demonstrations of the protesters.

Discusses how the protesters in Manhattan before the Republican National Convention were monitored by helicopters, blimps, and plainclothes police officers. Strategies used by the New York Police Department to control crowds and to prevent violence; How officers coaxed some protestors to remove themselves from construction scaffolding; Importance of teamwork when dealing with crowds of protesters; Need for individual officers to resist the taunting and jeering of the crowds; How officers took about 200 people into custody as a result of ordered arrests.

Discusses how protestors gathered to oppose the leadership of President George W. Bush and the Republicans on the eve of the Republican convention in Manhattan, New York. Efforts of the protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, to protest the president's policies on debt, civil and constitutional rights, and the environment; Lack of violent acts during the march which was staged from Chelsea to Midtown to Union Square; How some protesters harassed Republican guests at a party at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park; Political rally held by Governor George Pataki, Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at Ellis Island.

Reports on the protest made by concerned parties of Greenpeace against Ford Motor Co. in Oslo, Norway.

Discusses the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to question political demonstrators in an effort to curb the possibility of violent protests at the Republican National Convention in New York. Development of a list of people who may have information about possible plans for violence; Feelings of the demonstrators that they are being harassed by the FBI agents; How local police departments were encouraged by the FBI to counter terrorism by monitoring violent resistance, Internet fund-raising, and recruitment for organizations of dissent; Importance of maintaining safety and order during large-scale demonstrations.

Reports on injuries due to the protest against King Gyanendra in Nepal.

Reports on the release of members of protest group Tiananmen Mothers from custody after domestic and international appeals for their freedom in China.

Reports that a group of Queens residents gathered at a waterfront park in Howard Beach near Kennedy Airport to celebrate the final flight of the Concorde and the end of the noise caused by supersonic transport (SST), which had disturbed their neighborhoods for 25 years. Comments by residents on how the noise of the Concorde distressed and frightened them and their children; Details of campaigns by the residents over the years to stop the proliferation of supersonic transport; Claims that the noise from SST caused health problems and damage to property; Comments by some admirers of the Concorde.

Reports on the lull in street demonstrations by the protest movement in Hong Kong, China in July 2003 as organizers ponder what goals to pursue next with regard to the government plan to limit civil liberties.

Focuses on protest singers and songwriters in the United States. How they are trying to speed up an antiwar reaction; Actions of protest singers at the Grammy awards, including Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt and India.Arie; Influence of protest songs; Mention of Bob Dylan's 'Hurricane' and 'Give Peace a Chance,' by John Lennon; Absence of antiwar songs from commercial radio stations; Views of singer John Mellencamp and other musicians; Background on the 1960's protest-song movement; Music styles of antiwar songs. INSET: 'Boom Boom Boom Mr. Son of a Bush'.

Reports that a number of protesters were injured during an anti-globalization rally in Barcelona, Spain on June 24, 2001.

Focuses on a protest movement staged in Rome, Italy as of June 2001.