New York Offers Perks for GOP Protesters
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NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned down requests to allow an anti-war demonstration in Central Park on the eve of the Republican National Convention, but he offered protesters something else: cheap tickets to a Broadway show.    All they have to do to get discounted tickets, reduced hotel rates and other perks is play nice when they come to town...
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NEW YORK - On the heels of the Republican National Convention, New York City is being invaded by comedians. "I'll have more protesters," Drew Carey told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday...
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Note to delegates and other convention attendees: Leave your guns at home. As New York increases security for the Republican National Convention, the event&#39;s organizers are making sure nothing&#39;s left unsaid.
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New York -- Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters, united by their loathing of President Bush and their opposition to the US-led war in Iraq, marched Sunday through the fortified streets of New York, just a day before Republicans convene to nominate
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rganizers of two large protests against the Republican National Convention planned for this weekend said yesterday that they would not directly encourage supporters to go to demonstrations in Central Park.
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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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State Supreme Court judge ruled today that New York City can ban protesters from using the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sunday for a rally, the largest planned for the Republican National Convention, according to The Associated Press.
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NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan on Sunday to protest President Bush's foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president for a second term.    A day ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention, protesters gathered 20 blocks south of the convention site...
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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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Protesters heading to New York for the Republican national convention at the end of this month might want to reconsider before breaking the city&#39;s furniture. If they get their message across with a smile instead of a snarl, they will see ...
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NEW YORK - 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.    The arrests, including several on Wednesday, far surpass those made in much more violent circumstances at Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention...
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That&#39;s what city officials offered Tuesday to those who behave lawfully at the Republican National Convention. But the plan doesn&#39;t guarantee that only peaceful protesters will get the reduced prices and the free felt-tip pens.
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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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The Republican convention in New York is set to open amid tight security, after a mass protest against George Bush.
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New York has launched a program to welcome demonstrators coming to the city at the end of the month to protest the Republican presidential nominating convention. City officials hope the effort will ensure that the rallies are calm and, at the same time, ...
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NEW YORK -- In an election year with a tight, fiercely partisan presidential race, skeptics might wonder why the GOP is having its convention, which starts today, in New York City.
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Discounted hotels and Broadway show tickets for convention protesters?