New York Braces for Big Anti-Bush March
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The Republican National Convention's host city braced Sunday for tens of thousands of demonstrators in the largest scheduled protest of the week against the Bush administration.
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With nearly 300 protesters arrested and massive demonstrations still ahead, New York readied a rowdy welcome for President George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided that if antiwar protesters are to descend on his city by the hundreds of thousands for the Republican Convention, he may as well turn them into shoppers. -The Washington Post
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Demonstrators brought out their signs  and banners on Sunday for a march expected to draw hundreds of  thousands to protest President Bush's policies the day before  the Republican convention opens.
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NEW YORK - More than 100,000 demonstrators marched past a heavily fortified Republican convention hall on Sunday, chanting denunciations of the administration and the war in Iraq as delegates flocked to the city to nominate President Bush for four more years in the White House.    Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned his way into the convention city three days ahead of the president, praising him as "calm in a crisis, comfortable with responsibility and determined to do everything needed to protect our people." He spoke on Ellis Island, framed by a Manhattan skyline altered irrevocably by terrorism...
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Thousands of cyclists snarled traffic  in New York on Friday night and police said they arrested more  than 250 people and confiscated their bicycles in the first  significant protest against President Bush before the  Republican convention.
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They have protested naked, used pedal power, marched and rung bells in the days leading up to the Republican convention, but on Sunday political activists were expected to turn out in the hundreds of thousands to rally against President Bush's policies.
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A judge on Wednesday denied anti-Bush  protesters permission to rally in Central Park on the eve of  the Republican National Convention, leaving open the question  of where possibly hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will  go after a march through midtown Manhattan.
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Thousands of New Yorkers will work from home or leave the city to avoid next week's Republican convention and the tightest security in the history of U.S. political party gatherings.
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Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters are preparing to march through the streets and rally in the parks, loosening a cacophonous roar of protest during the Republican National Convention.
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Thousands of protesters marched past New York&#39;s Madison Square Garden, where the Republican National Convention starts tomorrow, in what organizers predicted would be the biggest of
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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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Tens of thousands of demonstrators carrying signs and chanting &quot;No More Bush&quot; marched Sunday past Madison Square Garden, the site of this week&#39;s Republican National Convention.
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Bearing flag-draped boxes resembling coffins and fly-swatters with President Bush's image, more than 100,000 protesters swarmed Manhattan's streets Sunday on the eve of the Republican National Convention to demand that the president be turned out of office.
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If Republican delegates left New York fired up by four days of political pageantry for President George W. Bush, thousands of Bush opponents ended a week of protests disgruntled and frustrated.
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The Republican convention in New York is set to open amid tight security, after a mass protest against George Bush.
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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.