12.14pm BST Thousands already gathering Our reporter on the ground in Cairo Patrick Kingsley reports that even though an estimated 20,000 people have already gathered, the atmosphere appears less tense than before: Today has been billed as another tense day of protests and counter-protests by pro-Morsi crowds, and their secular opponents.
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Moments earlier the crowd of locals and tourists had been gathered in a festive atmosphere to mark France's 14 July bank holiday with the traditional fireworks display and concert.
But the game remains far more entrenched in many rural communities like this one in Oklahoma, where cockfighting is legal and where on Friday night 200 people gathered in a carnival atmosphere to watch roosters tear each other apart and to bet on their fates.
The nation's governors gathered today in an atmosphere of deepening concern, confronting persistent revenue shortfalls, which many said would be aggravated by the turmoil on Wall Street, and the rising costs of providing health care for the poor and preventing terrorist attacks.
Many demonstrators made their way to nearby Cihangir, where they gathered in a semi-party atmosphere with dance music, cheers, and whistles mingling with occasional wafts of tear gas as police chased people down side streets in the area.
An organizer, Cal Folger Day, 23, who called Mr. Cannon "an indefatigable host," said she preferred to hold events there instead of in a bar or at a theater because she wanted to be in an atmosphere where people gathered primarily to listen to one another, rather than to engage in commerce.
