This could be the sidewalk in front of a business, a public street corner, the courthouse, the capitol building, or a park that has historically been used for protests in your city.
On July 23rd it declared that three public parks in Beijing could be used for protests during the games (normally no demonstrations, except very occasionally anti-Japanese or anti-Western ones, are tolerated).
"Of course, rubber bullets, tear gas, and Tasers have been used for a while — on nonviolent anti-war protests at the dawn of the Iraq invasion, not to mention Occupy — but the U.S. media has often chosen to ignore these images.
Facebook has been used for political and social activism and for organising protests.
In much protest literature, the word has become synonymous with shale gas even though fracking has been used for a long time in conventional oil and gas and even in geothermal power.
In fact, of course, they object to the ends the money is used for: to protest against tax cuts, privatised pensions and school vouchers, and to promote the minimum wage.
*Sex toys can be used for political protest.
"The event was created by Resisters, but was used for legitimate protest organizing and promotion," ShutItDownDC one of the other activist groups said via Twitter.
In later years, the meadow was used for concerts, protests and family gatherings.
Less-lethal weapons, also known as direct fired SIM, are not be used for crowd control in protests, according to an October 2013 OPD memo (pdf).
