Delegates, Protesters Descend on New York
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NEW YORK - Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would use the nomination spotlight to defend his hawkish foreign polices and offer a second-term agenda for health care, education and job training.   "He believes it's important for a candidate to talk about what he's done and, most important, where he wants to lead," said adviser Karen Hughes, aboard Bush's campaign bus in Ohio...
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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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Protests -- and arrests -- began in New York on Thursday, days before the start of the Republican convention, where President Bush will be nominated for re-election in a city that voted overwhelmingly for his opponent four years ago.
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Republicans are gathering in New York for their party&#39;s national convention, as demonstrators prepare to march through the city to protest the war in Iraq.
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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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NEW YORK A roaring river of demonstrators surged through the canyons of Manhattan on the eve of the Republican National Convention in the city&#39;s largest political protest in decades, a raucous but peaceful spectacle that pilloried George W. Bush and
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Protests -- and arrests -- began in New York on Thursday, days before the start of the Republican convention, where President Bush will be nominated for re-election in a
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NEW YORK -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched past the Madison Square Garden site of the Republican National Convention today, chanting, blowing whistles and carrying anti-war banners as delegates gathered to nominate President Bush for a second
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Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week.
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Thousands of protesters will face thousands of security officials at the Republican National Convention even before the event begins Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Protesters threatening violence, terror fears on every corner and a tense presidential campaign left Gotham City on pins and needles yesterday, braced for President Bush&#39;s make-or-break convention.
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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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In case their discontent isn't already clear, protesters are spelling it out. "Stop Bush Now" signs and other anti-GOP messages are appearing throughout the city well before delegates arrive for the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday.
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New York -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering an olive branch, and some good shopping deals, to protesters planning to descend on New York for the Republican National Convention at the end of the month.
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(World News) New York, Aug 24 : As the countdown for next week&#39;s four-day Republican Party National Convention begins, the New York City police prepare to tackle tens of thousands of anti-Bush protestors who plan to swamp the city at the time.
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Demonstrators carrying colorful  banners and signs marched up one of New York's main avenues on  Sunday to protest President Bush's policies over the Iraq war  and the economy the day before the Republican convention opens.
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Demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday to protest President Bush&#39;s foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president for a second term.