By the time McElroy helped organize a third protest, in January, bus blocking had become the nexus of several Bay Area anxieties.
About 400 investors in Hong Kong held their second protest in a week on Sunday, claiming local banks had misled them about investing in bonds backed by Lehman Brothers, the failed bank.
Wukan residents have also reported what they call a second protest-related death in the village, that of a 69-year-old man who killed himself on Dec. 28 after receiving a series of threatening calls from the local authorities.
But for the past week, there has been a third protest movement in Sudan.
Twenty-two more protesters were arrested after entering the Trident submarine base in Bangor, Wash., in a third protest marking the 42d anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II.
On Tuesday, in the third protest in a weekly series, 56 people were arrested in front of Federal Plaza after they linked arms, stepped into the middle of Broadway and brought traffic to a halt.
It was his first protest in Egypt.
On 10 July, just three days before Mzee died, it held its first protest in Liverpool.
Even when news of the first protest in Sao Paulo broke, there was little concern or commotion.
No one is arguing that this is the first protest in world history.
