New York opens arms to protesters
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks he&#39;s found a way to pin down rowdy protesters at the Republican National Convention  by offering them a powder-blue button that labels them &quot;Peaceful Political Activists.&quot; ...
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Activists and police are preparing for a tense standoff and possible violence on New York streets when hundreds of thousands gather to decry the Iraq war and Bush administration polices during the Republican convention.
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Los Angeles Times - NEW YORK &#8212; More than 100,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of Manhattan on Sunday in a strong show of opposition to President Bush and the war in Iraq as this city geared up for the Republican National Convention.
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Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets is not the first block you might try if you were looking to find boys and girls with guns. And none of Manhattan, for that matter, presents good odds for turning up children engaged in paramilitary maneuvers.
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Thousands of people demanding social reforms protested in New York, as the Republican National Convention got under way.
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Demonstrations and protests bubbled up around New York again Wednesday, as thousands of people formed a symbolic unemployment line extending 3 1/2 miles from Wall Street to within yards of the Republican National Convention.
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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators  toting colorful banners and shouting "no more Bush" took to the  streets of New York on Sunday, the day before the Republican  convention was to open, to decry the U.S.-led war in Iraq and  President Bush's policies.
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The struggle over human rights in Sudan's Darfur region is coming to New York, with speeches Thursday from Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel and actor George Clooney and a weekend demonstration at Central Park.
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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators  carrying colorful banners and shouting "no more Bush" took to  the streets of New York on Sunday, the day before the  Republican convention was to open, to decry the U.S.-led war in  Iraq and President Bush's policies.
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An anti-war group planning a massive demonstration the day before the GOP convention asked a judge on Wednesday to overrule city officials and let protesters gather in Central Park.
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NEW YORK Aug. 18, 2004  An anti-war group planning a massive demonstration the day before the GOP convention asked a judge on Wednesday to overrule city officials and let protesters gather in Central Park.
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Tens-of-thousands of protesters are marching past Madison Square Garden, in mid-town New York, where the Republican presidential nominating convention begins Monday.
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NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters, abortion rights supporters, labor rights activists and anarchists are preparing to unfurl banners, march through the streets and rally in the parks, loosening a ...
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A day after massive street demonstrations, smaller groups of protesters turned Monday to health care, civil rights and economics &#151; areas where they say President Bush and the Republicans convening in Madison Square Garden have failed the country.
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Opposition supporters began what they said would be three days of nationwide demonstrations Wednesday.
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About 200 people have been arrested during a day of protest against President George W Bush in the city of New York. Police say most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct and occurred away from the march.
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New York braced Sunday for tens of thousands of demonstrators in the largest scheduled protest of the week against the Bush administration, as Republican delegates descended on a heavily fortified convention city.